Exploring the high-dimensional structure of muscle redundancy via subject-specific and generic musculoskeletal models

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2887-2896

  Valero Cuevas, F J ^a,b   Cohn, B A ^a   Yngvason, H F ^c   Lawrence, E L ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computational models; Monte Carlo simulation; Muscle redundancy; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FIBERS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEURONS; REDUNDANCY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

ANATOMICAL VARIABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOFS); HIGH-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; STOCHASTIC TECHNIQUES; TECHNIQUES AND RESULTS;

MUSCLE;

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; GAMMA MOTONEURON; HUMAN; JOINT; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REDUNDANCY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HINDLIMB; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ARM; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HINDLIMB; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84938749784     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.04.026     Document Type: Article

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