Frequency tuning of the cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) recorded from multiple sites along the sternocleidomastoid muscle in normal human subjects

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-47

  Wei, Wei ^a   Jeffcoat, Ben ^a   Mustain, William ^a   Zhu, Hong ^a   Eby, Thomas ^a   Zhou, Wu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

canal; otolith; sound activation of vestibular system; VCR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STIMULUS; TIME; TUNING CURVE; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTOID; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84872405077     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-012-0360-1     Document Type: Article

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