Utilizing a handheld electrode array for localized muscle impedance measurements

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 257-263

  Narayanaswami, Pushpa ^a   Spieker, Andrew J ^a   Mongiovi, Phillip ^a   Keel, John C ^a   Muzin, Stefan C ^a   Rutkove, Seward B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance; Muscle; Radiculopathy; Reproducibility; Subcutaneous fat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MYOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HANDHELD ELECTRODE ARRAY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MYOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADICULOPATHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84864023417     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23307     Document Type: Article

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