Use of imaging to assess normal and adaptive muscle function

Physical Therapy

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 704-718

  Segal, Richard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES;

EID: 34249889910     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060169     Document Type: Review

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