Electrical impedance myography: Background, current state, and future directions

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 936-946

  Rutkove, Seward B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Electrical impedance; Muscle; Neuromuscular disease; Technique

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MYOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ENDOMYSIUM; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MYOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 71549145293     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21362     Document Type: Review

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