Chapter 6 The CMAP scan

Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 60, Issue C, 2009, Pages 65-77

  Visser, Gerhard H ^a   Blok, Joleen H ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 77956643662     PISSN: 1567424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-424X(08)00006-8     Document Type: Chapter

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