Muscle analysis using pQCT, DXA and MRI

MC Erlandson, AL Lorbergs, S Mathur… - European journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle is one of the larger organs of the body and is integrally involved in
metabolic processes in both health and disease. The ability to accurately and precisely …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative imaging techniques for the assessment of osteoporosis and sarcopenia

S Guerri, D Mercatelli, MPA Gómez… - … imaging in medicine …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bone and muscle are two deeply interconnected organs and a strong relationship between
them exists in their development and maintenance. The peak of both bone and muscle mass …

The potential role of genetic markers in talent identification and athlete assessment in elite sport

Y Jacob, T Spiteri, NH Hart, RS Anderton - Sports, 2018 - mdpi.com
In elite sporting codes, the identification and promotion of future athletes into specialised
talent pathways is heavily reliant upon objective physical, technical, and tactical …

[HTML][HTML] Lower-extremity muscle atrophy and fat infiltration after chronic spinal cord injury

CD Moore, BC Craven, L Thabane… - … of musculoskeletal & …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Atrophy and fatty-infiltration of lower-extremity muscle after spinal cord injury
(SCI) predisposes individuals to metabolic disease and related mortality. Objectives: To …

Morphological segmentation analysis and texture-based support vector machines classification on mice liver fibrosis microscopic images

Y Wang, F Shi, L Cao, N Dey, Q Wu… - Current …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: To reduce the intensity of the work of doctors, pre-classification work needs to
be issued. In this paper, a novel and related liver microscopic image classification analysis …

Measurement of muscle and fat in postmenopausal women: precision of previously reported pQCT imaging methods

AW Frank-Wilson, JD Johnston, WP Olszynski… - Bone, 2015 - Elsevier
Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) imaging has been used to quantify
muscle area and density as well as intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) and subcutaneous …

Assessment of body composition in spinal cord injury: A scoping review

JW van der Scheer, JO Totosy de Zepetnek, C Blauwet… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this scoping review was to map the evidence on measurement properties of
body composition tools to assess whole-body and regional fat and fat-free mass in adults …

Making the invisible visible: imaging techniques for assessing muscle mass and muscle quality in chronic kidney disease

A Sabatino, KH Sola, TB Brismar… - Clinical Kidney …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Muscle wasting and low muscle mass are prominent features of protein energy wasting
(PEW), sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). In …

Greater skeletal muscle fat infiltration is associated with higher all-cause mortality among men of African ancestry

Q Zhao, JM Zmuda, AL Kuipers… - Age and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background: fat infiltration within and around skeletal muscle (ie myosteatosis) increases
with ageing, is greater in African versus European ancestry men and is associated with poor …

A partially supervised physical activity program for adult and adolescent survivors of childhood cancer (SURfit): study design of a randomized controlled trial …

CS Rueegg, S Kriemler, SJ Zuercher, C Schindera… - BMC cancer, 2017 - Springer
Background Beyond survival of nowadays> 80%, modern childhood cancer treatment strives
to preserve long-term health and quality of life. However, the majority of today's survivors …