Noninvasive, accurate assessment of the behavior of representative populations of motor units in targeted reinnervated muscles

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 810-819

  Farina, Dario ^a   Rehbaum, Hubertus ^a   Holobar, Aleš ^b   Vujaklija, Ivan ^c   Jiang, Ning ^a   Hofer, Christian ^c   Salminger, Stefan ^d   Van Vliet, Hans Willem ^c   Aszmann, Oskar C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electromyographic (EMG) decomposition; high density EMG; motor neuron; motor unit; myoelectric control; neural drive to muscle; targeted muscle reinn ervation (TMR)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BRAIN; DECODING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; NEURONS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC; HIGH-DENSITY EMG; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR UNIT; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; TARGETED MUSCLE REINN ERVATION (TMR);

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMPUTATION STUMP; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AMPUTATION STUMPS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84904353483     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2014.2306000     Document Type: Article

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