The association between muscle EMG and perfusion in knee extensor muscles

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-105

  Laaksonen, Marko S ^a,b   Kyröläinen, Heikki ^c   Kalliokoski, Kari K ^a   Nuutila, Pirjo ^a   Knuuti, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Electromyography; Positron emission tomography; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 33644771181     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2006.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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