Reliability of ultrasonographic measurement of the architecture of the vastus lateralis and gastrocnemius medialis muscles in older adults

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-70

  Raj, Isaac S ^a   Bird, Stephen R ^a   Shield, Anthony J ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Muscle architecture; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRAINING; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRONE POSITION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VICTORIA;

EID: 83555172515     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2011.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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