Volume conduction in an anatomically based surface EMG model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2138-2147

  Lowery, Madeleine M ^a,b,c   Stoykov, Nikolay S ^a,b,d   Dewald, Julius P A ^a,b,e,f   Kuiken, Todd A ^a,b,g,h,i,j  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^f LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Capacitance; EMG; Finite element; Geometry; MRI

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODE SITES; LIMB GEOMETRY; VOLUME CONDUCTION; VOLUME CONDUCTOR MODEL;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FILTER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUME CONDUCTOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 9644275366     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.836494     Document Type: Article

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