Can the patellar tendon moment arm be predicted from anthropometric measurements?

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 645-651

  Tsaopoulos, Dimitrios E ^a   Maganaris, Constantinos N ^a   Baltzopoulos, Vasilios ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knee; Moment arm length; MRI; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CORRELATION METHODS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

KNEE; MOMENT ARM LENGTH; SCALING;

TENDONS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KNEE CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MALE; PATELLAR LIGAMENT;

EID: 33846242598     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.01.022     Document Type: Article

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