A more efficient magnetic resonance imaging-based strategy for measuring quadriceps muscle volume

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-433

  Tracy, Brian L ^a,b   Ivey, Fred M ^a,c   Metter, E Jeffrey ^d   Fleg, Jerome L ^d   Siegel, Eliot L ^c   Hurley, Ben F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cross sectional area; Knee extensor; MRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037371793     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000053722.53302.D6     Document Type: Article

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