Component characteristics of thigh muscle volume in young and older healthy men

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-93

  Ogawa, Madoka ^a   Yasuda, Tomohiro ^a   Abe, Takashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Muscle mass distribution; Relative strength; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTOR MUSCLE; ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ARTICLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY ISOMETRIC; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; THICKNESS; THIGH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; THIGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863416253     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2011.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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