Analysis of amplitude and frequency variations of essential and Parkinsonian tremors

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 345-349

  Gao, Jian Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pathological tremor; Stochastic oscillator; Variation in amplitude and period

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; NEUROLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; WHITE NOISE;

PARKINSONIAN TREMORS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NOISE STANDARD; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PARKINSON DISEASE; POWER SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREMOR;

EID: 2942718512     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02344710     Document Type: Article

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