Predicting muscle activation patterns from motion and anatomy: Modelling the skull of Sphenodon (Diapsida: Rhynchocephalia)

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 153-160

  Curtis, Neil ^a   Jones, Marc E H ^b   Evans, Susan E ^b   Shi, JunFen ^a   O'Higgins, Paul ^c   Fagan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeding; Food handling; Multi body modelling; Muscle activation; Skull loading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEEDING; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; SIMULATORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVATION PATTERNS; ANATOMICAL ORIENTATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA; COMPUTER MODELS; COMPUTER-BASED MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOOD HANDLING; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; JAW MOTION; MULTI-BODY DYNAMIC; MULTI-BODY MODELLING; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; SKULL LOADING;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; BITE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDING; LIZARD; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; SKULL; SPHENODON;

REPTILIA; SAURIA; SPHENODON; SPHENODONTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 72849124935     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0139     Document Type: Article

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