Added sampling improves reproducibility of multipoint motor unit estimates

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 114-116

  Goyal, Namita ^a   Salameh, Johnny S ^a   Baldassari, Laura E ^b   David, William S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Incremental method; Motor unit number estimation (MUNE); Multiple point stimulation (MPS); Reproducibility; Sampling; Surface motor unit action potentials (sMUAPs); Test retest reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULNAR NEUROPATHIES;

EID: 73949113903     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21500     Document Type: Article

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