Non-invasive characterization of motor unit behaviour in pathological tremor

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  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 MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; CENTRAL FREQUENCY; DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FALSE ALARMS; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION; MISS-RATE; MOTOR UNIT; PATHOLOGICAL TREMORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; SIMULATED SIGNALS; SPIKE TIMING; SPIKE TRAIN; SURFACE EMG;

AUTOMATION;

DECOMPOSITION;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; TREMOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TREMOR;

EID: 84866951596     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/5/056011     Document Type: Article

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