Integrated digital image and accelerometer measurements of rat locomotor and vibratory behaviour

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-88

  Shih, Yuan Hsing ^a   Young, Ming Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Locomotor; Tremor; Twitch; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROPROCESSOR; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; VIBRATION SENSE; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOFTWARE; TREMOR; VIBRATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34548502176     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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