Mapping activation levels of skeletal muscle in healthy volunteers: An MRI study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1420-1425

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

^a MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D; Exercise; mfMRI; Motor unit; T2; Triceps surae muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; EXERCISE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE FUNCTIONAL MRI; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; EXERTION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845342563     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20772     Document Type: Article

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