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Motor unit number index and compound muscle action potential amplitude

H Bostock1, A B Jacobsen2, H Tankisi2

  • 1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.

Clinical Neurophysiology : Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
|July 11, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
CMAP amplitudeCorrelationMUNEMunixMusix

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