Muscle shear modulus measured with ultrasound shear-wave elastography across a wide range of contraction intensity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 103-113

  Yoshitake, Yasuhide ^a   Takai, Yohei ^a   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^a   Shinohara, Minoru ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FITNESS AND SPORTS IN KANOYA   (Japan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biceps brachii; Elastography; Electromyography; Muscle stiffness; Muscle tone

Indexed keywords

BICEPS BRACHII; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TONE;

CALIBRATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEAR STRENGTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902543948     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24104     Document Type: Article

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