Muscle echo intensity: Reliability and conditioning factors

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 393-403

  Caresio, Cristina ^a   Molinari, Filippo ^b   Emanuel, Giorgio ^a   Minetto, Marco Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fibrous and adipose tissue content of muscles; Greyscale analysis; Muscle thickness; Region of interest; Subcutaneous layer thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ECHO INTENSITY; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84938209481     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cpf.12175     Document Type: Article

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