Stimulation of surface EMG signals generated by muscle tissues with inhomogeneity due to fiber pinnation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1521-1529

  Mesin, Luca ^a   Farina, Dario ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bi pinnate muscle; Electromyography; EMG modeling; Spatial frequency; Volume conductor

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; SIGNALING;

MUSCLE TISSUES; VOLUME CONDUCTORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TISSUE; SIMULATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4143116593     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.827551     Document Type: Article

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