Decomposition of surface EMG signals from cyclic dynamic contractions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1941-1951

  De Luca, Carlo J ^a,b,c,d   Chang, Shey Sheen ^d   Roy, Serge H ^a   Kline, Joshua C ^a   Hamid Nawab, S ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MA 02215   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic contractions; Firing rate; Gait; Motor units

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CORTICAL ELECTRODE; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WAVEFORM; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY;

EID: 84930849970     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00555.2014     Document Type: Article

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