Abstract
Skeletal muscle viscoelastic properties reflect muscle microstructure and neuromuscular activation. Elastographic methods, including magnetic resonance elastography, have been used to characterize muscle viscoelastic properties in terms of region of interest (ROI) measurements. The present study extended this approach to create thresholded pixel-by-pixel maps of viscoelastic properties of skeletal muscle during rest and knee extension in eleven subjects. ROI measurements were taken for individual quadricep muscles and the quadriceps region as a whole, and the viscoelastic parameter map pixels were statistically tested at positive false discovery rate q
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1675-1698 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Physiological Measurement |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2013 |
Keywords
- elastography
- magnetic Resonance Elastography
- Skeletal Muscle
- MULTIFREQUENCY MR ELASTOGRAPHY
- HUMAN SKELETAL-MUSCLE
- IN-VIVO
- LIVER VISCOELASTICITY
- LEAST-SQUARES
- BRAIN
- HEALTHY
- TISSUE
- VARIABILITY
- STIFFNESS