Methods for estimating muscle fibre conduction velocity from surface electromyographic signals

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 432-445

  Farina, Dario ^a   Merletti, R ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Delay estimators; Electromyography; End of fibre components; Spatial filters

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION VELOCITY (CV); ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC (EMG) SIGNALS; MUSCLE FIBRE CONDUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FIBERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN SURFACE;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444295718     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350984     Document Type: Review

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