Spatial and force dependency of mechanomyographic signal features

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-99

  Madeleine, Pascal ^a   Cescon, Corrado ^b   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

2D array; Accelerometer; Mechanomyography; Tibialis anterior muscle

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33749532659     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.05.018     Document Type: Article

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