Motor unit number index (MUNIX)

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2209-2211

  Nandedkar, Sanjeev D ^a   Nandedkar, Desh S ^b   Barkhaus, Paul E ^c,d   Stalberg, Erik V ^e  

^a OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLASMA TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ALS; Motor units; MUNE; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE;

MOTOR UNIT NUMBER INDEX (MUNIX); SURFACE-RECORDED COMPOUND MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL (CMAP);

MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER INDEX; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 9644257165     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.834281     Document Type: Article

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