Rapid tremor frequency assessment with the iPhone accelerometer

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 288-290

  Joundi, Raed A ^a   Brittain, John Stuart ^a   Jenkinson, Ned ^a,b   Green, Alexander L ^a,b   Aziz, Tipu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; IPhone; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSTONIC DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HAND TREMOR; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TREMOR;

EID: 79955036667     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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