Functional electrical stimulation of long-term denervated, degenerated human skeletal muscle: Estimating activation using T2-parameter magnetic resonance imaging methods

Artificial Organs

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 604-608

  Mandl, Thomas ^a   Meyerspeer, Martin ^a   Reichel, Martin ^a   Kern, Helmut ^b   Hofer, Christian ^b   Mayr, Winfried ^a   Moser, Ewald ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Denervated muscle; Functional electrical stimulation; High field magnetic resonance imaging; Human muscle; Paraplegia; T2 mapping

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MAGNETISM; MAPPING; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RESONANCE;

DENERVATED MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; HIGH-FIELD; HIGH-FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN MUSCLES; IMAGING METHOD; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; T2 MAPPING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE TRAINING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49749131983     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2008.00609.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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