1984/01/01 by Leslie J. Dorfman
Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · Neuroscience · #Anatomy #Biology #Biomedical engineering #Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders #Computer science #Distribution (mathematics) #Internal medicine #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Medicine #Muscle activation and electromyography studies #Nerve conduction velocity #Nerve fiber #Neuroscience #Peripheral #Peripheral Nerve Disorders #Peripheral nerve #Sensory system
paper · doi:10.1002/mus.880070103
openalex publication_date 1984/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Recent advances in digital signal processing have permitted the development of clinically relevant, noninvasive, computer-based methods for estimating the distribution of conduction velocities (DCV) in motor, sensory, and mixed populations of large myelinated nerve fibers. All currently available methods incorporate explicit and implicit assumptions about the nature of the unit impulses under study. Preliminary investigations using DCV methods have clarified some issues concerning conduction of impulses in the different fiber subpopulations of normal and diseased human nerves. In the presence of severe nerve disease, DCV analysis is usually either impractical or superfluous; additional studies are needed to define its range of clinical applicability. Extension of this technology to clinical analysis of small myelinated and unmyelinated fiber populations will require improvements in the techniques of nerve stimulation and recording.