Inter-rater reliability of motor unit number estimates and quantitative motor unit analysis in the tibialis anterior muscle

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 947-952

  Boe, S G ^a   Dalton, B H ^a   Harwood, B ^a   Doherty, T J ^a,b   Rice, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Motor unit; Motor unit number estimation; Quantitative EMG; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CELL COUNT; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349103341     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.02.168     Document Type: Article

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