Measurement of muscle architecture concurrently with muscle hardness using ultrasound strain elastography

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 833-839

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

^a JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fascicle length; Muscle thickness; Pennation angle; Real time elastography; Ultrasonography; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ELASTIC MODULI; HARDNESS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEPARATION; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ARCHITECTURAL PARAMETERS; B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIANCES; FASCICLE LENGTH; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MUSCLE THICKNESS; PENNATION ANGLE; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTOGRAPH; ELASTOGRAPHY; FASCICLE LENGTH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ANGLE; MUSCLE HARDNESS; MUSCLE PENNATION; MUSCLE THICKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND STRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; HARDNESS; METHODOLOGY; PENNATION ANGLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG MODULUS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

FASCICLE LENGTH; MUSCLE THICKNESS; PENNATION ANGLE; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; HARDNESS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84907868484     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185113507565     Document Type: Article

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