Measurement of intramuscular fat by muscle echo intensity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 963-971

  Young, Hui Ju ^a   Jenkins, Nathan T ^a   Zhao, Qun ^a   Mccully, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intramuscular fat; MRI; Muscle; Muscle composition; Muscle EI; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955184726     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24656     Document Type: Article

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