Quantification of jiggle in real electromyographic signals

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1022-1034

  Campos, Carmen ^a   Malanda, Armando ^b   Gila, Luis ^c   Segura, Victoriano ^b   Lasanta, Inmaculada ^b   Artieda, Julio ^d  

^a HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Jiggle; Motor unit potential; MUP variability; PC based EMG analysis; Quantitative EMG analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033936885     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200007)23:7<1022::AID-MUS4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Barkhaus P, Nandedkar S. On the selection of concentric needle electromyogram motor unit action potentials: is the rise time criterion too restrictive? Muscle Nerve 1996:19: 1554-1560.
2. Bischoff C, Stålberg E, Falck B, Feg-Olofsson KE. Reference values of motor unit action potentials obtained with multi-MUAP analysis. Muscle Nerve 1994;17:842-851.
3. Bland JM, Altman DG. Comparing methods of measurement: why plotting difference against standard method is misleading. Lancet 1995;346:1085-1087.
4. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;i:307-310.
5. Buchthal F, Guld C, Rosenfalck P. Volume conduction of the spike of the motor unit potential investigated with a new type of multielectrode. Act Physiol Scand 1957:38:331-354.
6. Campos C, Lasanta I, Gila L, Malanda A, Artieda J. Quantitative assessment of variability in the shape of the motor unit action potential at consective discharges ("jiggle"). Preliminary data in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In: Fernández JM, Stålberg E, editors. Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Computerized and Quantitative EMG. Vigo, Spain, 1998.
7. De Luca CJ, LeFever RS, McCue MP, Xenakis AP. Control scheme governing concurrently active human motor units during voluntary contractions. J Physiol 1982;329:129-142.
8. Press WH, Teukolsky SA, Vetterling WT, Flannery BP. Numerical recipes in C: the art of scientific computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1992. p 650-670.
9. Proakis JG, Manolakis DG. Digital signal processing: principles, algorithms and applications, 3rd ed. London: Prentice-Hall International; 1996. p 118-133.
10. Sonoo M, Stålberg E. The ability of PAUM parameters to discriminate between normal and neurogenic PAUMs in concentric EMG: analysis of the PAUM "thickness" and the proposal of "size index." Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1993;89:291-303.
11. Stålberg E. Electrodiagnostic assessment and monitoring of motor unit changes in disease. Muscle Nerve 1991;14: 293-303.
12. Stålberg E, Nandedkar S, Sanders D, Falck B. Quantitative motor unit potential analysis. J Clin Neurophysiol 1996;13: 401-422.
13. Stålberg E, Sonoo M. Assessment of variability in the shape of the motor unit action potential, the "jiggle," at consecutive discharges. Muscle Nerve 1994;17:1135-1144.
14. Stålberg E, Stålberg S, Melander M, Arimura K. A personal computer based system used in electromyography for interpretation and reporting. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 1991;34:219-227.