Background Surgical resection of tongue cancer may impair swallowing and speech.
Knowledge of tongue muscle architecture affected by the resection could aid in patient …

Besides their role in cellular responses to hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are
involved in innate immunity and also have anti-inflammatory (M2) functions, such as …

BACKGROUND: Although satisfactory volume reduction in secondary unilateral lower limb
lymphedema after lymphaticovenous anastomosis (LVA) in the affected limb has been well …

Introduction: The ability to view individual myofibers is possible with many histological
techniques, but not yet with standard in vivo imaging. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) …

For advanced tongue cancer, the choice between surgery and organ-sparing treatment is
often dependent on the expected loss of tongue functionality after treatment. Biomechanical …

Background The relationship between lumbar spine posture and muscle structure is not well
understood. Objectives To investigate the predictive capacity of muscle structure on lumbar …

Optical polarization tractography (OPT) has recently been applied to map fiber organization
in the heart, skeletal muscle, and arterial vessel wall with high resolution. The fiber …

Purpose To quantify the effects of the intrinsic signal pattern, image acquisition conditions,
and data analysis conditions on diffusion‐tensor MRI (DTMRI) tractography–based muscle …

Object To assess post-exercise recovery of human calf muscles using dynamic diffusion
tensor imaging (dDTI). Materials and methods DTI data (6 directions, b= 0 and 400 s/mm 2) …

Just as the overlying skin hides skeletal muscle from direct assessment in clinical evaluation
of muscle disease, so does it hamper studies that probe basic mechanisms underlying …