Advances in surface electromyographic signal simulation with analytical and numerical descriptions of the volume conductor

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 467-476

  Farina, Dario ^a   Mesin, L ^a   Martina, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conductivity tensor; Modelling; Surface EMG; Volume conductor

Indexed keywords

CURVILINEAR FIBRES; DETECTION SYSTEMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC (EMG) SIGNALS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE TISSUE; PROCESS MODEL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444342026     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350987     Document Type: Article

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