Wavelet based correlation and coherence analysis reveals frequency dependent motor unit conduction velocity of the abductor pollicis brevis muscle

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology : Official Journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology
V von Tscharner, Marina Barandun

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the motorunit conduction velocity (CV) as a function of frequency. A wavelet based correlation and coherence analysis was introduced to measure CV as a function of frequency. Based on the most simple assumption that the power spectra of the motor unit action potential is shifted to higher frequencies with increasing CV, we hypothesized that there would be a monotonic or linear trend of increasing CV with frequency. This trend was only confirmed at higher frequencies. At lower frequencies the trend was often reversed leading to a decrease in CV with increasing frequency. Thus the CV was high at low frequencies, went through a minimum at about 170 Hz and increased at higher frequencies, as expected. The observed CV at low frequencies could not be fully explained by assuming non-propagating signals or variable groups of motor units. We concluded that spectra and CV contain partly independent information about the muscles and that the wavelet based method provides the tools to measure them both simultaneously.

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