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Influence of needle electrode depth on DE-STA motor unit number estimation

Colleen T Ives1, Timothy J Doherty

  • 1Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Muscle & Nerve
|March 19, 2014
PubMed
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Decomposition-based quantitative electromyography (DQEMG)decomposition-enhanced spike-triggered averaging (DE-STA)motor unit number estimation (MUNE)needle electrode depthtrapezius muscle

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