Influence of muscle fibre shortening on estimates of conduction velocity and spectral frequencies from surface electromyographic signals

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-486

  Schulte, Elke ^a   Farina, D ^b   Merletti, R ^b   Rau, G ^a   Disselhorst Klug, C ^a  

^a Uniklinikum Aachen   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic EMG; EMG modelling; Spatial filtering; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION VELOCITY (CV); ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC (EMG) SIGNALS; SPATIAL FILTERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FIBERS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FILTER; GEOMETRY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VARIANCE;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444233179     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350988     Document Type: Article

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