Electromyography: Detection, processing, and applications

Biomedical Technology and Devices Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 4-1-4-66

  Pozzo, Marco ^a   Farina, Dario ^a   Merletti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

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