Echo intensity obtained from ultrasonography images reflecting muscle strength in elderly men

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 993-998

  Watanabe, Yuya ^a   Yamada, Yosuke ^a,b   Fukumoto, Yoshihiro ^c   Ishihara, Tatsuro ^d   Yokoyama, Keiichi ^a   Yoshida, Tsukasa ^a   Miyake, Motoko ^a   Yamagata, Emi ^a   Kimura, Misaka ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echogenicity; Sarcopenia; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO INTENSITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; ISOMETRICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE THICKNESS; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THIGH;

ECHOGENICITY; SARCOPENIA; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SARCOPENIA; THIGH;

EID: 84880763240     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S47263     Document Type: Article

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