Subject‐specific muscle properties from diffusion tensor imaging significantly improve the accuracy of musculoskeletal models

JP Charles, B Grant, K D'Août, KT Bates - Journal of Anatomy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… and overall biomechanical performance within subject-specific … estimate muscle volumes
and visualise muscle attachment points, and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to estimate muscle

Determining subject-specific lower-limb muscle architecture data for musculoskeletal models using diffusion tensor imaging

JP Charles, CH Moon… - … of Biomechanical …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… ), θ is the muscle fiber pennation angle, and ρ is the density of mammalian skeletal muscle
(0.001056 gmm −3 [38]). This is a generally accepted value for skeletal muscle density [39,40…

Towards rapid prediction of personalised muscle mechanics: integration with diffusion tensor imaging

J Fernandez, K Mithraratne, M Alipour… - … in Biomechanics and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… for the skeletal muscleimage we can compute the diffusion tensor at each voxel, D. We
used 20 directions (plus the references image with no diffusion) to compute the diffusion tensor, …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo human lower limb muscle architecture dataset obtained using diffusion tensor imaging

JP Charles, F Suntaxi, WJ Anderst - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… by the isometric stress of skeletal muscle (or specific tension; … well established within
musculoskeletal modeling research [13… MRI), with a specific focus on implications for …

A MATLAB toolbox for muscle diffusion-tensor MRI tractography

BM Damon, Z Ding, MT Hooijmans, AW Anderson… - … of biomechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
Diffusion-tensor MRI fiber tractography has been used to reconstruct skeletal muscle
architecture, but remains a specialized technique using custom-written data processing routines. In …

[HTML][HTML] A diffusion tensor-based method facilitating volumetric assessment of fiber orientations in skeletal muscle

L Secondulfo, MT Hooijmans, JJ Suskens, V Mazzoli… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… volumes of both lower leg muscles are in agreement with biomechanical predictions. The fiber
… Reproducibility of diffusion tensor imaging in human forearm muscles at 3.0 T in a clinical …

Contemporary image-based methods for measuring passive mechanical properties of skeletal muscles in vivo

LE Bilston, B Bolsterlee, A Nordez… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) gives insight into the microstructure of the muscle, by quantifying
the diffusion … that are accessible in many fields of research (biomechanics, sport sciences, …

Paraspinal muscle DTI metrics predict muscle strength

E Klupp, B Cervantes, S Schlaeger… - … Resonance Imaging, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… ; besides physical and biomechanical problems, also psychological … Diffusion tensor imaging
(DTI) is an MRI method enabling … features of skeletal muscle significantly predict diffusion

[HTML][HTML] Role of the extracellular matrix in loss of muscle force with age and unloading using magnetic resonance imaging, biochemical analysis, and computational …

U Sinha, V Malis, JS Chen, R Csapo… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… ECM/fibrosis within skeletal muscles. … Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an established
technique to probe the architecture of anisotropic structures such as skeletal and cardiac muscle

Reliability and robustness of muscle architecture measurements obtained using diffusion tensor imaging with anatomically constrained tractography

B Bolsterlee, A D'Souza, RD Herbert - Journal of biomechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
… of the architecture of human skeletal muscle, we believe our measurements to be reasonably
accurate. Our microdissection studies on several human muscles suggest there is very little …