Sixty-four channel wearable acquisition system for long-term surface electromyogram recording with electrode arrays

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 455-466

  Pozzo, Marco ^a   Bottin, A ^a   Ferrabone, R ^b   Merletti, R ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Sirio Automazione srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adhesive array; Ambulatory monitoring; Datalogger; Multi channel recording; Portable acquisition system; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODE ARRAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAM (EMG) DEVICES; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEMS;

DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRODES; NEUROLOGY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; EUROPE; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; LONG TERM CARE; MARKETING; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; RECORDING; RESEARCH; SPORTS MEDICINE; WORKER;

AMBULATORY CARE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 4444250956     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350986     Document Type: Article

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