A new method for measurement of motor unit action potential duration based on correlation, a pilot study.
We present a new, automatic, correlation-based method for measuring the duration of motor unit action potentials (MUAPs). The method seeks to replicate the way an expert elctromyographer uses his or her eyes, calculating the start and end of the MUAP waveform on the basis of the degree of similarity...
| Published in: | Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 589 - 600 |
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| Format: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Mar2020
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