Reliability and Validity of Quantifying Absolute Muscle Hardness Using Ultrasound Elastography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Chino, Kentaro ^a   Akagi, Ryota ^b   Dohi, Michiko ^b   Fukashiro, Senshi ^a   Takahashi, Hideyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE HARDNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; VALIDITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HARDNESS; HARDNESS TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866653375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045764     Document Type: Article

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