A positron emission tomography study of voluntarily and electrically contracted human quadriceps

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 505-507

  Vanderthommen, Marc ^a   Depresseux, Jean Claude ^a   Bauvir, Philippe ^a   Degueldre, Christian ^a   Delfiore, Guy ^a   Peters, Jean Marie ^a   Sluse, Francis ^a   Crielaard, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

muscular blood flow; nuclear magnetic resonance; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030898653     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199704)20:4<505::AID-MUS16>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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