Motor unit action potentials recorded with concentric electrodes: Physiologic implications

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 333-339

  Dumitru, Daniel ^a   King, John C ^a   Nandedkar, Sanjeev D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b TECA Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentric needle electrode; Instrumentation; Motor unit; Motor unit action potential; Volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 0030843438     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(97)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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