Skeletal muscle quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy as an outcome measure for clinical trials

PG Carlier, B Marty, O Scheidegger… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Recent years have seen tremendous progress towards therapy of many previously incurable
neuromuscular diseases. This new context has acted as a driving force for the development …

Techniques and applications of skeletal muscle diffusion tensor imaging: a review

J Oudeman, AJ Nederveen, GJ Strijkers… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is increasingly applied to study skeletal muscle physiology,
anatomy, and pathology. The reason for this growing interest is that DTI offers unique …

Muscle changes detected with diffusion-tensor imaging after long-distance running

M Froeling, J Oudeman, GJ Strijkers, M Maas… - Radiology, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To develop a protocol for diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) of the complete upper legs
and to demonstrate feasibility of detection of subclinical sports-related muscle changes in …

Evaluation of skeletal muscle DTI in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy

MT Hooijmans, BM Damon, M Froeling… - NMR in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a popular method to assess differences in fiber
organization in diseased and healthy muscle tissue. Previous work has shown that muscle …

From fibre to function: are we accurately representing muscle architecture and performance?

J Charles, R Kissane, T Hoehfurtner… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The size and arrangement of fibres play a determinate role in the kinetic and energetic
performance of muscles. Extrapolations between fibre architecture and performance …

Applications of Diffusion‐Weighted MRI to the Musculoskeletal System

JG Raya, A Duarte, N Wang, V Mazzoli… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) is an established MRI technique that can investigate
tissue microstructure at the scale of a few micrometers. Musculoskeletal tissues typically …

DTI of human skeletal muscle: the effects of diffusion encoding parameters, signal‐to‐noise ratio and T2 on tensor indices and fiber tracts

M Froeling, AJ Nederveen, K Nicolay… - NMR in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we have performed simulations to address the effects of diffusion encoding
parameters, signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) and T2 on skeletal muscle diffusion tensor indices …

Skeletal muscle diffusion tensor‐MRI fiber tracking: rationale, data acquisition and analysis methods, applications and future directions

BM Damon, M Froeling, AKW Buck… - NMR in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanical functions of muscles involve the generation of force and the actuation of
movement by shortening or lengthening under load. These functions are influenced, in part …

Heterogeneity of muscle sizes in the lower limbs of children with cerebral palsy

GG Handsfield, CH Meyer, MF Abel… - Muscle & nerve, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is associated with reduced muscle volumes, but previous
studies have reported deficits in only a small number of muscles. The extent of volume …

Controlling upper limb prostheses using sonomyography (SMG): A review

V Nazari, YP Zheng - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a critical review and comparison of the results of recently published
studies in the fields of human–machine interface and the use of sonomyography (SMG) for …