Lower extremity muscle morphology in young athletes: An MRI-based analysis

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-128

  Tate, Christine Marie ^a   Williams, Glenn N ^b   Barrance, Peter J ^a   Buchanan, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; CSA; Hamstrings; Muscle volume; Quadriceps

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DELAWARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPORTS;

EID: 30344476994     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000179400.67734.01     Document Type: Article

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