Reproducibility of motor unit number estimation in individual subjects

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 467-473

  Simmons, Zachary ^a   Epstein, David K ^a   Borg, Bryson ^a   Mauger, David T ^a   Kothari, Milind J ^a   Shefner, Jeremy M ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Motor unit counting; Motor unit number estimation; Prediction interval; Test retest reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035087459     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.1028     Document Type: Article

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