Spinal Cord Injury Detection and Monitoring Using Spectral Coherence

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1971-1979

  Al Nashash, Hasan ^a   Fatoo, Noreen A ^a   Mirza, Nabil N ^a   Ahmed, Rabi I ^a   Agrawal, Gracee ^b   All, Angelo H ^b   Thakor, Nitish V ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basso; Beattie and Bresnahan (BBB) score; New York University (NYU) impactor; somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs); spectral coherence (SC); spinal cord injury (SCI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; LIMB; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 70349571941     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2018296     Document Type: Article

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