Modeling of muscle motor unit innervation process correlation and common drive

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1605-1614

  Jiang, Ning ^a   Parker, Philip A ^a   Englehart, Kevin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motor unit common drive; Motor unit innervation process correlation; Surface MES

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC MOTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MOTOR UNIT COMMON DRIVE; MOTOR UNIT INNERVATION PROCESS CORRELATION; SIMULATION MODELS; SURFACE MYOELECTRIC SIGNAL (MES);

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MYOELECTRICITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 33746659101     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.876631     Document Type: Article

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