Amplitude cancellation of motor-unit action potentials in the surface electromyogram can be estimated with spike-triggered averaging

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 431-440

  Farina, Dario ^a   Cescon, Corrado ^a,b   Negro, Francesco ^a   Enoka, Roger M ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 55249098387     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90365.2008     Document Type: Article

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