Abstract
In order to compute the muscle fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) and to clarify how action potentials are conducted, the normalized peak-averaging technique (NPAT) was newly employed together with computer softwares. Twelve pairs of surface electromyograms were selected from biceps brachii muscles during contraction at a level of 50% of the maximum voluntary isometric contraction in seven healthy volunteers. The techniques to compute MFCV from the time delay of the peaks (P-NPAT) and from the cross correlation (CC-NPAT) of averaged pulses were compared to the cross-correlation technique (CCT). The spread rate of averaged pulses was computed to estimate the spread of MFCVs in different motor units. Tri-phasic averaged pulses were obtained clearly by averaging more than 500 detected pulses. The P-NPAT and CC-NPAT highly correlated with the CCT in the computed MFCVs. The MFCVs obtained by P-NPAT were generally larger than those obtained by CCT, and the spread rates had in the definite values. These results suggest that the MFCV could be computed and the spread of MFCVs would be estimated from averaged pulses. The MFCV of a patient with myotonic dystrophy was also studied, and it was suggested that the NPAT would be clinically useful.
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