Calculated moment-arm and muscle-tendon lengths during gait differ substantially using MR based versus rescaled generic lower-limb musculoskeletal models

Gait and Posture

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 640-648

  Scheys, Lennart ^a,b   Spaepen, Arthur ^b   Suetens, Paul ^a   Jonkers, Ilse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Gait; MR; Musculoskeletal modelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAIT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEG; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS;

EID: 52049100976     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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