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266 Chapter 20. Signal Process<strong>in</strong>g 86(3):603-623, 2006<br />

name mean<strong>in</strong>g value<br />

num number of MUs 5<br />

siz size of each MU, <strong>in</strong> number of fibres 20-30 (uniformly distr.)<br />

cfr central fir<strong>in</strong>g rate 20 Hz<br />

ED electrode <strong>in</strong>ter-pole distance 2.54 mm<br />

CH number of generated channels 8<br />

meanIPI mean <strong>in</strong>ter-pulse <strong>in</strong>terval 1/cfr · 1000 ms<br />

IPIstd Clamann formula for IPI deviation 9.1 · 10 −4 · meanIPI 2 + 4<br />

SY radial conductivity 0.063 S/m<br />

SZ axial conductivity 0.328 S/m<br />

A anisotropy ratio SZ/SY = 5.2<br />

SI <strong>in</strong>tracellular conductivity 1.010 S/m<br />

D fibre diameter 50 · 10 −6 m<br />

CV conduction velocity 4.0 m/s<br />

FatHeight fat-sk<strong>in</strong> layer thickness 3 mm<br />

MUterritory XY-plane radius of each MU 1.0 mm<br />

DistEndplate endplate-to-electrode distance 20 mm<br />

FibZsegment length of the endplate <strong>in</strong> the Z axis 0.4 mm<br />

CondVolCond conductivity of the volume conductor 0.08 S/m<br />

Table 1<br />

Parameters used for artificial s-EMG generation.<br />

by the anisotropy factor A, calculated as the ratio between the radial conductivity<br />

(0.063 S/m) and the axial conductivity (0.328 S/m), see Tab. 1 for<br />

parameter details. Afterwards, the potential distribution can be calculated as<br />

if the volume conductor were isotropic. The channels compos<strong>in</strong>g the synthetic<br />

s-EMG conta<strong>in</strong> the same MUAP without any time delay among themselves,<br />

hence produc<strong>in</strong>g a <strong>in</strong>stantaneous mixture with the other source signals.<br />

We have generated 100 synthetic, eight-channel s-EMG signals of 1.5-second<br />

duration. Each s-EMG was composed of five MUs randomly located under<br />

a 3 mm fat and sk<strong>in</strong> layer <strong>in</strong> the detection area of the electrode-array (up<br />

to ±2 mm of the sides of the electrode array and up to a depth of 6 mm).<br />

Each MU <strong>in</strong> turn consisted of 20 to 30 fibres (uniform distribution) of <strong>in</strong>f<strong>in</strong>ite<br />

length located randomly <strong>in</strong> a 1 mm circle <strong>in</strong> the XY plane. The conduction<br />

velocity of the fibres was 4.0 m/s. Note that an average biceps brachii MU<br />

is generally composed of at least 200-300 muscle fibres [23]; however, for the<br />

sake of computational speed, that number was reduced to one tenth, which<br />

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