A portable hand-held device for quantifying and standardizing tremor assessment

Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 254-262

  Caligiuri, M P ^a   Tripp, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FlexAble Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSAGE; LIMITERS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

LIMB POSTURE; TREMOR SEVERITY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

LITHIUM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARM POSITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INDUCED PARKINSONIAN TREMOR; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC PARKINSON DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROPROCESSOR; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PORTABLE HAND HELD DEVICE; POSITION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREMOR; TREMOROMETER;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREMOR;

EID: 8644221986     PISSN: 03091902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091900410001658111     Document Type: Article

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