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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gerontology. 2018 Oct 25;65(2):186–197. doi: 10.1159/000493263

Table 1.

Definition of the iTMT terms.

iTMT Protocol Unit Description
Start Point NA When the computer-cursor was inside of the home circle and cursor velocity exceeded a
pre-defined threshold (initiation of movement)
End Point NA When the computer-cursor reached to one of the target circle and cursor velocity was
below a pre-defined threshold (stopped in the target circle)
iTMT Trial NA A target reaching including moving the computer-cursor from the home circle to one of the
target circle
iTMT Round NA Five iTMT trials including successfully completing reaching to all five targets (1-A-2-B-3)
iTMT Test NA The whole iTMT test including successfully completing three iTMT rounds

iTMT Derived Parameters Unit Description

iTMT Time s The time needed to successfully complete the iTMT test
iTMT Velocity unit/s Maximum ankle-rotation velocity, averaged by the first 15 iTMT trials
iTMT Power Unit2/s3 Maximum multiplication of ankle-rotation velocity and ankle-rotation acceleration,
averaged by the first 15 iTMT trials
iTMT Exhaustion % Percentage of decline in maximum ankle-rotation velocity from the 1-to-5 iTMT trials
toward the 11-to-15 iTMT trials
iTMT Variability % Coefficient of variation (CoV) of ankle-rotation velocity during the first 15 iTMT trials

iTMT: instrumented trail-making task