Confounding factors in water EMG recordings: An approach to a definitive standard

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 348-351

  Veneziano, W H ^a,b   da Rocha, A F ^a   Goncalves C A ^a   Pena, A G ^a   Carmo, J C ^a   Nascimento, F A O ^a   Rainoldi, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abductor pollicis brevis muscle; EMG water recording; Median power frequency; Signal amplitude; Surface EMG signal

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; ELECTRODES; MUSCLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WATER;

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS; BREVIS MUSCLE; EMG WATER RECORDING; MEDIAN POWER FREQUENCY; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG) SIGNAL;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

WATER;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOREARM; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; RANK SUM TEST; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STANDARDIZATION; WATER IMMERSION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AIR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOREARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WATER;

EID: 33745439171     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0039-z     Document Type: Article

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