" Clustering Index method": A new technique for differentiation between neurogenic and myopathic changes using surface EMG

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1032-1041

  Uesugi, Haruo ^a,b   Sonoo, Masahiro ^c   Stålberg, Erik ^d   Matsumoto, Kohji ^e   Higashihara, Mana ^a   Murashima, Hideharu ^c   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Nagashima, Yu ^a   Shimizu, Teruo ^c   Saito, Hisatoshi ^b   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Azabu Neurosurgery Hospital   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clustering Index; Needle electromyography; Quantitative analysis; Surface electromyography; Tibialis anterior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79953027266     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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