Journal of Biomechanics
Volume 43, Issue 8 , Pages 1573-1579 , 28 May 2010

Filtering the surface EMG signal: Movement artifact and baseline noise contamination

  • Carlo J. De Luca

      Affiliations

    • Delsys Inc., Boston MA, USA
    • NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston University, 19 Deerfield St, Boston MA, USA
  • ,
  • L. Donald Gilmore

      Affiliations

    • NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston University, 19 Deerfield St, Boston MA, USA
  • ,
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov

      Affiliations

    • NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston University, 19 Deerfield St, Boston MA, USA
  • ,
  • Serge H. Roy

      Affiliations

    • NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston University, 19 Deerfield St, Boston MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +16173580718; fax: +16173535737.

,Accepted 5 January 2010.

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PII: S0021-9290(10)00063-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.01.027

Journal of Biomechanics
Volume 43, Issue 8 , Pages 1573-1579 , 28 May 2010