Assessment of myofascial trigger points (MTrPs): A new application of ultrasound imaging and vibration sonoelastography

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5585-5588

  Sikdar, Siddhartha ^a   Shah, Jay P ^b   Gilliams, Elizabeth ^b   Gebreab, Tadesse ^b   Gerber, Lynn H ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MUSCLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AUDIO FREQUENCY VIBRATIONS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DOPPLER ANALYSIS; INDUCED VIBRATIONS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAINS; RELATIVE STIFFNESS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION; VIBRATION;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 61849152892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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