This is a competitive renewal of a contract that is now in its third year at the University of Maryland. This award for an additional three years has as its objective the continued development and further refinement of an existing quantitative model of the structure and function of the cat hindlimb and its musculoskeletal components. Specifically, the existing model will be extended to include a description of motion in the toe segments, descriptions of the internal architecture of each of the 33 muscles, development of a mathematical relationship among excitation measurements (EMG) and the kinematic terms of velocity and length of the muscle sarcomeres, and """"""""userfriendly"""""""" interfaces by which experimentalists can introduce and manipulate experimental data and receive graphical output of model projections.

Project Start
1986-07-25
Project End
1989-07-24
Budget Start
1988-03-31
Budget End
1989-07-24
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1988
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Maryland College Park
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
College Park
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
20742