Effect of characteristics of dynamic muscle contraction on crosstalk in surface electromyography recordings

SAIEE Africa Research Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-28

  Viljoen, S ^a   Hanekom, T ^a   Farina, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Average rectified value; Crosstalk; Mean power spectral frequency; Modeling; Motor unit action potential; Muscle contraction; Muscle shortening; Spatial filters; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; WIENER FILTERING;

AVERAGE RECTIFIED VALUE; MEAN POWER; MEAN POWER SPECTRAL FREQUENCY; MODELING; MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIALS; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MUSCLE SHORTENING; POWER SPECTRAL; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPECTRAL FREQUENCY; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 77249147883     PISSN: 00382221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23919/saiee.2007.9487925     Document Type: Article

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