Purpose To explore the capability and reliability of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance
imaging (DTI) in the evaluation of human skeletal muscle injury. Materials and Methods DTI …

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 …

Purpose To investigate a tetrahedral diffusion gradient encoding scheme to measure the
diffusion tensor in vivo for human calf muscle. Materials and Methods The theoretical TE …

Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of in vivo calf muscle fiber tracking in human
subjects. Materials and Methods An EPI‐based diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) sequence with …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate a fast clinical protocol to enable diffusion
tensor imaging of the human forearm and assess the reproducibility of six diffusion tensor …

The goal of this study was to assess the changes of water diffusion during contraction and
elongation of calf muscles using diffusion tensor (DT) MRI in normal volunteers. Twenty …

Diffusion tensor (DT) imaging is an emerging magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technique
for evaluating the microstructure of well-organized biologic tissues such as muscles and …

Purpose: To design a time‐efficient patient‐friendly clinical diffusion tensor MRI protocol and
postprocessing tool to study the complex muscle architecture of the human forearm …

Diffusion tensor (DT)‐MRI studies of skeletal muscle provide information about muscle
architecture, microstructure, and damage. However, the effects of noise, the diffusion …

Diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) offers great potential for understanding
structure-function relationships in skeletal muscle. The basis for these studies is that water …