Anatomical information is needed in ultrasound imaging of muscle to avoid potentially substantial errors in measurement of muscle geometry

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 652-665

  Bénard, Menno R ^a,b   Becher, Jules G ^b   Harlaar, Jaap ^b   Huijing, Peter A ^a   Jaspers, Richard T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human medial gastrocnemius; Muscle geometry; Probe orientation; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65949097954     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21287     Document Type: Article

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