Estimating motor unit discharge patterns from high-density surface electromyogram

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 551-562

  Holobar, Aleš ^a,b   Farina, Dario ^c   Gazzoni, Marco ^b   Merletti, Roberto ^b   Zazula, Damjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Discharge pattern; High density EMG; Motor unit; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; SHOULDER; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THIGH;

EID: 62949106764     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.10.160     Document Type: Article

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