Estimation of motor unit conduction velocity from surface EMG recordings by signal-based selection of the spatial filters

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1963-1971

  Mesin, Luca ^b   Tizzani, Francesca ^b   Farina, Dario ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Linear electrode arrays; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION VELOCITY (CV); LINEAR ELECTRODE ARRAYS; NONPROPAGATING SIGNALS; SPATIAL FILTERING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; SIGNAL DETECTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FILTER; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33749527537     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.881760     Document Type: Article

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