Assessing electrical impedance alterations in spinal muscular atrophy via the finite element method

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1871-1874

  Jafarpoor, Mina ^a   Spieker, Andrew J ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Sung, Minhee ^a   Darras, Basil T ^b   Rutkove, Seward B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL STUDIES; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEALTHY HUMANS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HUMAN MODEL; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MAXIMUM PHASE; MUSCLE SIZE; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; PEAK VALUES; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT THICKNESS; SURFACE IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE RECORDINGS; SURFACE VOLTAGES; SURFACE-BASED;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862265487     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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