Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) elastography quantification of muscle stiffness over a course of gradual isometric contractions: a preliminary study.

A Yavuz, A Bora, MD Bulut, A Batur… - Medical …, 2015 - medultrason.ro
Aims: To evaluate the feasibility of quantitative analysis of muscle stiffness by Acoustic
Radiation Forced Impulse (ARFI) elastography over a course of graduate isometric voluntary …

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging of In Vivo Vastus Medialis Muscle Under Varying Isometric Load

K Nightingale, R Nightingale, D Stutz… - Ultrasonic …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging is a method for characterizing local
variations in tissue mechanical properties. In this method, a single ultrasonic transducer …

Application of acoustic radiation force impulse elastography in imaging of delayed onset muscle soreness: a comparative analysis with 3T MRI

T Hotfiel, M Kellermann… - Journal of sport …, 2018 - journals.humankinetics.com
Context: Delayed onset muscle soreness is one of the most common reasons for impaired
muscle performance in sports and is associated with reduced muscle strength and …

Intra-and interoperator reproducibility of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastography–preliminary results

S Bota, I Sporea, R Sirli, A Popescu, M Danila… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2012 - Elsevier
Our study assessed acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) reproducibility and the factors
influencing it. The intra-and interoperator reproducibility were studied in 33 and 58 patients …

Reliability and quantification of gastrocnemius elasticity at relaxing and at submaximal contracted condition

M Jeon, K Youn, S Yang - Medical ultrasonography, 2018 - medultrason.ro
Aims: To investigate the feasibility of quantitative analysis of muscle stiffness by Acoustic
Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging, to obtain the reference values at relaxing and …

Evaluation of human muscle hardness after dynamic exercise with ultrasound real-time tissue elastography: a feasibility study

O Yanagisawa, M Niitsu, T Kurihara, T Fukubayashi - Clinical radiology, 2011 - Elsevier
AIM: To assess the feasibility of ultrasound real-time tissue elastography (RTE) for
measuring exercise-induced changes in muscle hardness and to compare the findings of …

Noninvasive assessment of the activity of the shoulder girdle muscles using ultrasound real-time tissue elastography

H Ishikawa, T Muraki, Y Sekiguchi, T Ishijima… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to clarify whether the activity of the shoulder girdle muscles
could be estimated by measuring the elasticity of these muscles under several levels of …

Influence of subjects' characteristics and technical variables on muscle stiffness measured by shear wave elastosonography

C Bortolotto, L Lungarotti, I Fiorina, M Zacchino… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this study is to quantitatively assess lower limbs muscle elasticity in a
court of healthy subjects and to evaluate the influence of technical variables (eg, diameter of …

Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging: a review

K Nightingale - Current medical imaging, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Acoustic radiation force based elasticity imaging methods are under investigation by many
groups. These methods differ from traditional ultrasonic elasticity imaging methods in that …

Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive force of the human rectus femoris at multiple sites: A Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver study

T Kodesho, K Taniguchi, T Kato, S Mizoguchi… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Estimation of muscle passive force from elasticity using shear wave elastography
(SWE) has been reported. However, the relationship between the elasticity and passive …