Effectiveness of motor unit potentials classification using various parameters and indexes

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1380-1387

  Zalewska, Ewa ^a   Hausmanowa Petrusewicz, Irena ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Indexes; Motor unit action potential; Myogenic; Neurogenic; Parameters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034255728     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00322-9     Document Type: Article

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