Time/frequency events of surface mechanomyographic signals resolved by nonlinearly scaled wavelets

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-266

  Beck, Travis W ^a   von Tscharner, Vinzenz ^b   Housh, Terry J ^c   Cramer, Joel T ^a   Weir, Joseph P ^d   Malek, Moh H ^e   Mielke, Michelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Isokinetic movement; Mechanomyography; Muscles; Stationary signal; Time frequency analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ISOKINETIC MOVEMENT; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; STATIONARY SIGNAL; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WAVELETS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; WAVELET;

EID: 52049118534     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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