Multiple motor unit recordings of laryngeal muscles: The technique of vector laryngeal electromyography

Laryngoscope

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2196-2203

  Roark, Rick M ^a   Li, James C L ^a   Schaefer, Steven D ^a   Adam, Alexander ^b   De Luca, Carlo J ^b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Electromyography; EMG; Laryngeal physiology; Motoneuron; Myoelectric recording

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNX; LARYNX MUSCLE; LARYNX PARESIS; LARYNX SPASM; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VECTOR LARYNGEAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036894666     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200212000-00014     Document Type: Article

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