Quantitative assessment of skeletal muscle activation using muscle functional MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 639-644

  Kinugasa, Ryuta ^a   Kawakami, Yasuo ^b   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^b  

^a MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activation; EMG; Human; Muscle; T2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANKLE JOINT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33646833210     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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