A Novel Method for Measuring Electromechanical Delay on the Vastus Medialis Obliquus and Vastus Lateralis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 878-

  Nordez, Antoine ^a   Catheline, Stefan ^b   Hug, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DELAY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; LETTER; MYOPATHY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE;

EID: 66649116384     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.11.005     Document Type: Letter

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