Determination of fascicle length and pennation in a contracting human muscle in vivo

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 354-358

  Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a   Ichinose, Yoshiho ^a   Ito, Masamitsu ^a   Kawakami, Yasuo ^a   Fukashiro, Senshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

muscle contraction; pennation angle; ultrasound; vastus lateralis muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

EID: 0031023792     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.82.1.354     Document Type: Article

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