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Influence of the surface EMG electrode on the compound muscle action potential

P E Barkhaus1, M I Periquet, S D Nandedkar

  • 1Milwaukee Veterans Administration Medical Center & Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology
|August 26, 2006
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