Non-invasive assessment of single motor unit mechanomyographic response and twitch force by spike-triggered averaging

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 496-501

  Cescon, C ^a   Gazzoni, M ^a   Gobbo, M ^b   Orizio, C ^b   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Averaging; Mechanomyography; Motor unit; Surface EMG; Twitch force

Indexed keywords

FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS (FDI); MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION (MVC); MECHANOMYOGRAPHIC (MMG) SIGNALS;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MUSCLE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPIKE WAVE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4444355445     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350990     Document Type: Article

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