title: Visualization of a stationary CPG-revealing spinal wave.
abstract: Central Pattern Generator (CPG) is still an elusive concept that has a visual manifestation as a rhythmic oscillation commanded from the spine, but that also has another manifestation as a train of bursts in the surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals recorded on the para-spinal muscles. This leads to the challenging problem of correlating the visually observed spinal wave with the sEMG signals recorded during the session. This paper develops a mathematical model of the spinal wave phenomenon, which, when driven by the sEMG data, yields such visually observable features as wave nodes.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hiebert
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jonckheere
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lohsoonthorn
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Musuvathy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanovic
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004576:Electromyography; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000502:physiology*