Reducing intersubject variability in motor unit number estimation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1457-1460

  Shefner, Jeremy M ^a   Jillapalli, Devanand ^a   Bradshaw, Deborah Y ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor unit; Motor unit number estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0032882343     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199910)22:10<1457::AID-MUS18>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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