A mass-length scaling law for modeling muscle strength in the lower limb

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2782-2789

  Correa, Tomas A ^a   Pandy, Marcus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

MRI; Muscle function; Muscle stress; Muscle volume; Muscle tendon properties; Musculoskeletal model; Peak isometric force; Specific tension

Indexed keywords

ISOMETRIC FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE VOLUME; MUSCLE-TENDON PROPERTIES; MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL; SPECIFIC TENSION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCALING LAWS;

MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 80055072526     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.08.024     Document Type: Article

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