Journal: Tomography
Article Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Muscle
doi: 10.3390/tomography10090106
Figure Lengend Snippet: Representative images of three athletes showing coronal fat-suppressed T2-weighted images of the hamstring injury depicted by the red oval (first column) together with axial spin-echo EPI images ( b -value = 0 s/mm 2 ) (second column), reconstructed mean diffusivity (MD) maps (third column), and reconstructed qT2 maps (fourth column) at the three time points (time point 1: within 1 week postinjury; time point 2: 2 weeks after visit 1; and time point 3: at clinical return to play). DTI, diffusion tensor imaging; qT2, quantitative T2. Reproduced with permission from the authors in Ref. .
Article Snippet: Recently, a DTI Matlab toolbox was released that allows users to perform tractography as well as to obtain muscle architectural parameters including fiber length, pennation angle, and curvature [ ]. is an example of fiber tracking in the medial gastrocnemius using this toolbox customized to the acquisition in the authors’ lab.
Techniques: Diffusion-based Assay, Imaging