title: An energy ratio based measure for F-wave backfiring rate estimation.
abstract: F-wave persistence is a frequently reported parameter for nerve conduction studies. F-wave activities are generated through backfiring of motor neurons. F-wave persistence is designed to estimate the backfiring rate. Through computational models and probability analyses, we demonstrated that the F-wave persistence definition is deficient in providing a robust and consistent estimate of the backfiring rate. We proposed an energy ratio based measure as an alternative to F-wave persistence to estimate backfiring rates. The energy ratio measure is shown to be robust to activity detection threshold and without the ceiling effect suffered by the traditional F-wave persistence.
authors.affiliation: Neurometrix Inc. Waltham, MA 02451, USA. xkong@neurometrix.com
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Shai N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Gozani
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D009431:Neural Conduction; D011336:Probability