Assessment of muscle fatigue using sonomyography: Muscle thickness change detected from ultrasound images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 472-479

  Shi, J ^a,b   Zheng, Y P ^a   Chen, X ^a   Huang, Q H ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electromyography; EMG; Mechanomyography; MMG; Muscle fatigue; SMG; Sonomyography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; ULTRASONICS;

MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; SONOMYOGRAPHY;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONOMYOGRAPHY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846120437     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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