Noninvasive analysis of motor unit behavior in pathological tremor

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7512-7515

  Holobar, A ^a   Glaser, V ^a   Gallego, J A ^b   Dideriksen, J L ^c   Farina, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONY; CONVOLUTION KERNEL COMPENSATION; DISCHARGE PATTERNS; EXCITATION LEVELS; FALSE ALARMS; HIGH-DENSITY; MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MISS-RATE; MOTOR UNIT; NOISE POWER; NONINVASIVE ANALYSIS; NORMAL CONDITION; PATHOLOGICAL TREMORS; SURFACE EMG;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREMOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; TREMOR;

EID: 84861652907     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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