Advances in surface EMG: Recent progress in detection and processing techniques

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 305-345

  Merletti, Roberto ^a   Aventaggiato, Matteo ^a   Botter, Alberto ^a   Holobar, Ales ^b   Marateb, Hamid ^a   Vieira, Taian M M ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electrode skin interface; EMG force relationship; Power line interference; Surface electromyography; Surface EMG decomposition; Surface EMG imaging

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

EMG-FORCE RELATIONSHIP; FRONT-END AMPLIFIER; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NEUROREHABILITATION; POWERLINE INTERFERENCE; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SURFACE EMG;

INTERFACE STATES;

ALCOHOL; SILVER CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CERAMICS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GEL; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TENDON;

EID: 78650123410     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v38.i4.10     Document Type: Review

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