Validation for tremor quantification of an electromagnetic tracking device

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 265-271

  O'Suilleabhain, Padraig E ^a   Dewey, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic tracking device; Essential tremor; Parkinson's disease; Tremor quantification

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSCILLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREMOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR;

EID: 0035297097     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1064     Document Type: Article

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