A displacement servosystem for muscle research permitting 50 micrometers length changes within 40 microseconds.
In order to determine the tension response of a stimulated intact muscle fibre to a very fast length change a servo system has been developed capable of imposing a displacement of 50 micrometers i.e. about 1% of the fibre length, within 40 microseconds. The system is designed so as to limit the displacement overshoot to less then 1%. This paper presents the performance of the system: both unloaded and loaded with a muscle fibre.
D000818:Animals; D004581:Electronics; D008280:Magnetics; D008433:Mathematics; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D010827:Physiology / Q000295:instrumentation*