Evaluation of human muscle hardness after dynamic exercise with ultrasound real-time tissue elastography: A feasibility study

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 815-819

  Yanagisawa, O ^a   Niitsu, M ^b   Kurihara, T ^c   Fukubayashi, T ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROGEL; MALE; MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE HARDNESS; MUSCLE STRAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EXERCISE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RESISTANCE TRAINING;

EID: 79960557492     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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