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

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, …

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 …

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 …

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

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

[HTML][HTML] Advances in imaging for assessing the design and mechanics of skeletal muscle in vivo

TJM Dick, F Hug - Journal of Biomechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
… behaviour of skeletal muscle, we can discover fundamental mechanisms of muscle function
and … Diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) is another imaging tool to non-invasively quantify the 3D …

Fatigue Effects on the Lower Leg Muscle Architecture Using Diffusion Tensor MRI

F João, S Alves, M Secca, M Noseworthy, A Veloso - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
… and diffusion tensor imaging for 3D measurements of the leg muscles simultaneously [21]. …
Skeletal muscles are composed of fibers that have an elongated, generally cylindrical shape…

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance imaging techniques for the quantitative analysis of skeletal muscle: state of the art

K Engelke, O Chaudry, L Gast, MAB Eldib… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 2023 - Elsevier
… T2 mapping, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and non-proton MRI. … of biomechanical tissue
properties. MR elastography (MRE) enables quantitative evaluation of these biomechanical

Regional variation in lateral and medial gastrocnemius muscle fibre lengths obtained from diffusion tensor imaging

J Aeles, B Bolsterlee, NY Kelp, TJM Dick… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
features of skeletal muscles exhibit substantial differences between individuals. These features
include muscle … system adapts to the biomechanical properties of the muscle or vice versa…

Application of diffusion tensor imaging fiber tractography for human masseter muscle

T Sugano, N Yoda, T Ogawa, T Hashimoto… - The Tohoku Journal of …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… fiber orientation is useful in evaluating stomatognathic biomechanics and muscle disorders.
… Recently, DTI has been used for analysis of skeletal muscle fiber orientation. Some studies