Restoration of muscle volume and shape induced by electrical stimulation of denervated degenerated muscles: Qualitative and quantitative measurement of changes in rectus femoris using computer tomography and image segmentation

Artificial Organs

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 609-613

  Gargiulo, Paolo ^a   Vatnsdal, Brynjar ^a   Ingvarsson, Páll ^a   Knútsdóttir, Sigrún ^a   Gudmundsdóttir, Vilborg ^a   Yngvason, Stefán ^a   Helgason, Thórdur ^a  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Denervated degenerated muscle; Electrical stimulation; Functional electrical stimulation; Lower motor neuron lesion; Modeling; Muscle shape; Muscle volume; Rehabilitation; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE; RESTORATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DENERVATED DEGENERATED MUSCLE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; LOW MOTOR NEURON LESION; MODELING; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SHAPE; MUSCLE VOLUME; RECTUS FEMORIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

NEURONS;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE SHAPE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49749121154     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2008.00610.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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