Spiralometry: Computerized assessment of tremor amplitude on the basis of spiral drawing

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2164-2170

  Kraus, Peter H ^a   Hoffmann, Arndt ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drawing; Kinetic tremor; Spiral; Spiralometry; Tremor

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SPIRAL DRAWING; SPIRALOMETRY; TREMOR; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREMOR;

EID: 78649391712     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23193     Document Type: Article

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