Surface electromyographic signals using dry electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3259-3268

  Laferriere, Pascal ^a   Lemaire, Edward D ^a,b   Chan, Adrian D C ^c  

^a Rehabilitation Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrodes; electromyography (EMG); myoelectric signal; noise; skin preparation

Indexed keywords

AG/AGCL; DRY ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC SIGNAL; EMG MEASUREMENT; FRAUNHOFER; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTIONS; ISOPROPYL ALCOHOLS; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MYOELECTRIC SIGNALS; NOISE; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PREPARATION METHOD; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FEATURES; SURFACE EMG; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 80052831337     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2164279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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