Measurement of rectus femoris muscle velocities during patellar tendon jerk using vector tissue doppler imaging

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2963-2966

  Sikdar, Siddhartha ^a   Lebiedowska, Maria ^b   Eranki, Avinash ^a   Garmirian, Lindsay ^b   Damiano, Diane ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuromuscular diseases; Pulsed doppler; Reflex; Stretch; Ultrasonography; Vector doppler

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; DOPPLER EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELONGATION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STRETCHING; TISSUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

JOINT ANGULAR VELOCITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PULSED DOPPLER; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REFLEX; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; VECTOR DOPPLER;

TENDONS;

EID: 77950997916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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