Purpose To develop a protocol for diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) of the complete upper legs
and to demonstrate feasibility of detection of subclinical sports-related muscle changes in …

Introduction: Structural evidence of exercise‐induced muscle disruption has traditionally
involved histological analysis of muscle tissue obtained by needle biopsy, however, there …

MRI examinations are accurate for diagnosing sports‐related acute hamstring injuries.
However, sensitive imaging methods for assessing recovery of these injuries are lacking …

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 to what extent inter‐and intramuscular variations of diffusion
parameters of human calf muscles can be explained by age, gender, muscle location, and …

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 …

Background The majority of sports‐related injuries involve skeletal muscle. Unlike acute
trauma, which is often caused by a single traumatic event leading to acute symptoms …

Objectives To assess acute muscle tears in professional football players by diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI) and evaluate the impact of normalization of data. Methods Eight football …

In this study, we have performed simulations to address the effects of diffusion encoding
parameters, signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) and T2 on skeletal muscle diffusion tensor indices …

OBJECTIVE. The aim of our study was to determine the optimal b value for 1.5-T diffusion
tensor (DT) MRI and fiber tractography of in vivo human skeletal muscle. SUBJECTS AND …