A diffusion tensor imaging analysis of gender differences in water diffusivity within human skeletal muscle

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 489-498

  Galbán, Craig J ^a,b   Maderwald, Stefan ^a   Uffmann, Kai ^a   Ladd, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; Gender; Mathematical modeling; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MUSCLE; TENSORS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY (FA); GENDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

WATER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELLIPSOMETRY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE MASS; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE RADIOGRAPHY; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BODY WATER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 29544431575     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.975     Document Type: Article

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