Characterizing white matter damage in rat spinal cord with quantitative MRI and histology

P Kozlowski, D Raj, JIE Liu, C Lam, AC Yung… - Journal of …, 2008 - liebertpub.com
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and quantitative T2 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were
used to characterize ex vivo the white matter damage at 3 and 8 weeks following dorsal …

Finite element modelling of contracting skeletal muscle

CWJ Oomens, M Maenhout… - … of the Royal …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To describe the mechanical behaviour of biological tissues and transport processes in
biological tissues, conservation laws such as conservation of mass, momentum and energy …

Determination of mouse skeletal muscle architecture using three‐dimensional diffusion tensor imaging

AM Heemskerk, GJ Strijkers, A Vilanova… - … in Medicine: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Muscle architecture is the main determinant of the mechanical behavior of skeletal muscles.
This study explored the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and fiber tracking to …

Dynamic MRS and MRI of skeletal muscle function and biomechanics

JJ Prompers, JAL Jeneson, MR Drost… - NMR in Biomedicine …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
MR is a powerful technique for studying the biomechanical and functional properties of
skeletal muscle in vivo in health and disease. This review focuses on 31P, 1H and 13C MR …

Musculoskeletal spectroscopy

C Boesch - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of skeletal muscle has been successfully applied
by physiologists over several decades, particularly for studies of high‐energy phosphates …

Quantitative MRI musculoskeletal techniques: an update

R de Mello, Y Ma, Y Ji, J Du… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. For many years, MRI of the musculoskeletal system has relied mostly on
conventional sequences with qualitative analysis. More recently, using quantitative MRI …

Validation of High-Resolution Tractography Against In Vivo Tracing in the Macaque Visual Cortex

H Azadbakht, LM Parkes, HA Haroon, M Augath… - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the noninvasive in vivo examination
of anatomical connections in the human brain, which has an important role in understanding …

Assessment of the mechanical properties of the musculoskeletal system using 2-D and 3-D very high frame rate ultrasound

T Deffieux, JL Gennisson, M Tanter… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the great challenges for understanding muscular diseases is to assess noninvasively
the active and passive mechanical properties of the musculoskeletal system. In this paper …

Combined magnetic resonance and diffusion tensor imaging analyses provide a powerful tool for in vivo assessment of deformation along human muscle fibers

U Pamuk, A Karakuzu, C Ozturk, B Acar… - journal of the mechanical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Muscle fiber direction strain provides invaluable information for characterizing muscle
function. However, methods to study this for human muscles in vivo are lacking. Using …

Repeatability of DTI‐based skeletal muscle fiber tracking

AM Heemskerk, TK Sinha, KJ Wilson, Z Ding… - NMR in …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)‐based muscle fiber tracking enables the measurement of
muscle architectural parameters, such as pennation angle (θ) and fiber tract length (Lft) …