Diffusion tensor MRI assessment of skeletal muscle architecture

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 152-160

  Heemskerk, Anneriet M ^a   Damon, Bruce M ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; DTI; Fiber tracking; Pennation angle; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; MYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ANISOTROPY; B SCAN; BIOMECHANICS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 34547828030     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340507781386988     Document Type: Review

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