Motor unit number reductions in paretic muscles of stroke survivors

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 505-512

  Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Wang, Ying Chih ^b   Suresh, Nina L ^a   Rymer, William Zev ^c   Zhou Sr , Ping ^c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG; index; M wave; motor unit; stroke

Indexed keywords

EMG; INDEX; M-WAVE; MOTOR UNIT; STROKE;

NEURONS;

MUSCLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STROKE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PARESIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE;

EID: 79960507035     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2140379     Document Type: Article

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