Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 75-83 , January 2008

Detection of tremor bursts by a running second order moment function and analysis using interburst histograms

  • Henricus Louis Journée

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700RB Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 50 361 3968; fax: +31 50 361 1715.
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  • Alida Annechien Postma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital Maastricht, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Mingui Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computational Neuroscience and Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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  • Michiel J. Staal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700RB Groningen, The Netherlands

Received 31 January 2006 ,Revised 7 December 2006 ,Accepted 15 December 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.12.005

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