Computer-controlled, MR-compatible foot-pedal device to study dynamics of the muscle tendon complex under isometric, concentric, and eccentric contractions

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 498-504

  Sinha, Shantanu ^a   Shin, David D ^a   Hodgson, John A ^a   Kinugasa, Ryuta ^b,c   Edgerton, V Reggie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cine velocity encoded phase contrast MRI; compatible device; foot pedal; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); muscle dynamics; muscle fiber architecture

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELECTRONICS; FOOT PEDAL DEVICE; GENERAL DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MAGNET; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TUBE; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCITY ENCODED PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FOOT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROBOTICS; TENDONS;

EID: 84864205120     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23617     Document Type: Article

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