Motor unit number estimation by decomposition-enhanced spike-triggered averaging: Control data, test-retest reliability, and contractile level effects

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 693-699

  Boe, Shaun G ^a   Stashuk, Daniel W ^b   Doherty, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Motor unit; Motor unit number estimation; Quantitative EMG; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION ENHANCED SPIKE TRIGGERED AVERAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THENAR; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 2442434877     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20031     Document Type: Article

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