Ultrasound measures of muscle thickness: Intra-examiner reliability and influence of body position

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 440-446

  Thoirs, Kerry ^a   English, Coralie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Regional muscle mass; Reliability; Repeatability of results; Skeletal muscle mass; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BODY POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350391576     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2009.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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