A new ultrasonic method for measuring minute motion activities on rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-49

  Young, C W ^a   Young, M S ^a   Li, Y C ^b   Lin, M T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Kaohsiung Polytechnic Institute Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fourier transform; noninvasiveness; phase; single chip microcomputer; spectrum analysis; tremor; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECTROSCOPY; TREMOR; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ETHOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROCOMPUTERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYOCLONUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TREMOR; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0030560854     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00102-1     Document Type: Article

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