Force and surface mechanomyogram frequency responses in cat gastrocnemius.
Force and surface mechanomyogram frequency responses in cat gastrocnemius.
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猫腓肠肌的力和表面肌力图频率响应。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9290(99)00185-2
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
A. Veicsteinas
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作者:
C. Orizio;R. Baratta;B. Zhou;M. Solomonow;A. Veicsteinas
Muscle surface displacement is a mechanical event taking place simultaneously with the tension generation at the tendon. The two phenomena can be studied by the surface mechanomyogram signal (MMG) (produced by a laser distance sensor) and the force signal (from a load cell). The aim of this paper was to provide data on the reliability of the laser detected MMG in muscle mechanics research. To this purpose it was verified if the laser detected MMG was suitable to estimate a frequency response in the cat medial gastrocnemius and its frequency response was compared with the one retrieved by the force signal at the tendon level. The force and MMG from the exposed medial gastrocnemius of four cats were analysed. The frequency response was investigated by sinusoidally changing the number of orderly recruited motor units, in different trials, in the 0.4–6Hz range. It resulted that it was possible to model the force and MMG frequency response by a critically damped second-order system with two real double poles and a pure time delay. On the average, the poles were at 1.83Hz (with 22.6ms delay) and at 2.75Hz (with 38ms delay) for force and MMG, respectively. It can be concluded that MMG appears to be a reliable tool to investigate the muscle frequency response during stimulated isometric contraction. Even though not statistically significant, the differences in the second-order system parameters suggest that different components of the muscle mechanical model may specifically affect the force or MMG.