An improved method for muscle activation detection during gait

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 0357-0360

  Xu, Lanyi ^a   Adler, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

EMG; Gait analysis; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION DETECTION; DOUBLE-THRESHOLD METHOD; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; SKELETAL MUSCLES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAIT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MUSCLE;

EID: 4944227737     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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