Limitations of Rechtschaffen and Kales

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-167

  Himanen, Sari Leena ^a   Hasan, Joel ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Rechtschaffen and Kales; Sleep analysis; Sleep stage scoring; Visual scoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONREM SLEEP; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SLEEP;

EID: 0034101644     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/smrv.1999.0086     Document Type: Article

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