Singularity characteristics of needle EMG IP signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-225

  Abel, Eric W ^a,b,f,g,h   Meng, Hongying ^c,i   Forster, Alan ^d,j   Holder, David ^e  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Division of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics   (United Kingdom)

^g Bioemedical Engineering Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^h Institution of Mechanical Engineers   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ British Machine Vision Association   (United Kingdom)

^j ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Clinical EMG; Diagnosis; Singularity; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EMG; MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIAL (MUAP); SINGULARITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MYOPATHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEEDLES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 31544481202     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.862548     Document Type: Article

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