Quantitative analysis of tremor time series

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 461-468

  Timmer, J ^a   Lauk, M ^a   Deuschl, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fourier analysis; Tremor measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030273144     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0924-980X(96)94658-5     Document Type: Article

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