Validity of measuring distal vastus medialis muscle using rehabilitative ultrasound imaging versus magnetic resonance imaging

Manual Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 259-263

  Worsley, Peter R ^a   Kitsell, Fleur ^a   Samuel, Dinesh ^a   Stokes, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reliability; Ultrasound imaging; Validity; Vastus medialis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING; RELIABILITY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899954676     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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