Surface electromyogram signal modelling

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 446-454

  McGill, Kevin ^a  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Firing rate; Force; Motor unit action potential; Muscle; Recruitment; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

KINESIOLOGY; MOTOR-UNIT-BASED MODELS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM (SEMG);

ELECTRODES; ERGONOMICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; RANDOM PROCESSES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER MODEL; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINESIOLOGY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; POWER SPECTRUM; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444250291     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350985     Document Type: Review

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