Accurate and representative decoding of the neural drive to muscles in humans with multi-channel intramuscular thin-film electrodes

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 593, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 3789-3804

  Muceli, Silvia ^a   Poppendieck, Wigand ^b   Negro, Francesco ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^c   Hoffmann, Klaus P ^b   Butler, Jane E ^d   Gandevia, Simon C ^d   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPH ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; ELECTRODE; IMPEDANCE; INNERVATION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES;

EID: 84940470007     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270902     Document Type: Article

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