3D Internal Muscle Activities Imaging Based on Multi-Channel Surface EMG Recordings: Surface EMG-Based Muscles Activities Imaging Technique

Author

Zhang, Yingchun ; Timm, Gerald W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Urologic Surg., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A surface electromyography (EMG) based muscle activities imaging (sEMG-MAI) approach has been developed using the bioelectrical source reconstruction approach to minimally invasively reconstruct muscle activities in the three dimensional (3D) space of the periurethral muscles (including urethral and anal sphincter, and the surrounding muscles) of the female pelvic floor from multi-channel intra-anal surface EMG recordings. The sEMG-MAI approach is being used to investigate function of the pelvic muscles and urethral sphincter which is an etiologic factor associated with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; electromyography; finite element analysis; image reconstruction; medical disorders; medical image processing; 3D internal muscle activities imaging; anal sphincter; bioelectrical source reconstruction; etiologic factor; female pelvic floor; intraanal surface EMG recording; multichannel surface EMG recording; pelvic muscles; periurethral muscles; sEMG-MAI; stress urinary incontinence; surface EMG based muscle activities imaging; surface electromyography; Bioelectric phenomena; Conductors; Electric potential; Electromyography; Fatigue; Image reconstruction; Muscles; Pelvis; Solid modeling; Surface reconstruction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515518

Filename

5515518