Chapter 11 Decomposition-enhanced spike triggered averaging MUNE. validity, reliability, and impact of contraction force

Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 60, Issue C, 2009, Pages 119-127

  Doherty, Timothy J ^a   Stashuk, Daniel W ^b   Boe, Shaun G ^c  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77956639566     PISSN: 1567424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-424X(08)00011-1     Document Type: Chapter

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