Longitudinal and transverse propagation of surface mechanomyographic waves generated by single motor unit activity

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 871-877

  Cescon, Corrado ^a,b   Madeleine, Pascal ^a   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Motor unit; Multi channel MMG; Spike triggered averaging

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNITS; MULTI-CHANNEL MMG; SPIKE TRIGGERED AVERAGING;

MOTORS;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 51349104800     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0357-4     Document Type: Article

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