Decomposition of surface EMG signals

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1646-1657

  De Luca, Carlo J ^a,b,c   Adam, Alexander ^a   Wotiz, Robert ^b   Gilmore, L Donald ^a   Nawab, S Hamid ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c NeuroMuscular Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEEDLE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PLATYSMA MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SPINAL NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 33748579550     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00009.2006     Document Type: Article

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