ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2020
Obtaining Quality Extended Field-of-View Ultrasound Images of Skeletal Muscle to Measure Muscle Fascicle Length.
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- A normative dataset of thumb muscle fascicle lengths in healthy, young adults: an extended field-of-view ultrasound study.Journal of biomechanics · 2025Article
- Fascicle Behavior and Muscle Activity of The Biceps Femoris Long Head during Running at Increasing Speeds.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Article
- Reliability of Panoramic Ultrasound in Assessing Rectus Femoris Size, Shape, and Brightness: An Inter-Examiner Study.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The effects of hip- vs. knee-dominant hamstring exercise on biceps femoris morphology, strength, and sprint performance: a randomized intervention trial protocol.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Measuring fascicle lengths of extrinsic and intrinsic thumb muscles using extended field-of-view ultrasound.Journal of biomechanics · 2023Article
- Implementing Ultrasound Imaging for the Assessment of Muscle and Tendon Properties in Elite Sports: Practical Aspects, Methodological Considerations and Future Directions.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Muscle fascicle length, which is commonly measured in vivo using traditional ultrasound, is an important parameter defining a muscle's force generating capacity. However, over 90% of all upper limb muscles and 85% of all lower limb muscles have optimal fascicle lengths longer than the field-of-view of common traditional ultrasound (T-US) probes. A newer, less frequently adopted method called extended field-of-view ultrasound (EFOV-US) can enable direct measurement of fascicles longer than the field-of-view of a single T-US image. This method, which automatically fits together a sequence of T-US images from a dynamic scan, has been demonstrated to be valid and reliable for obtaining muscle fascicle lengths in vivo. Despite the numerous skeletal muscles with long fascicles and the validity of the EFOV-US method for making measurements of such fascicles, few published studies have utilized this method. In this study, we demonstrate both how to implement the EFOV-US method to obtain high quality musculoskeletal images and how to quantify fascicle lengths from those images. We expect that this demonstration will encourage the use of the EFOV-US method to increase the pool of muscles, both in healthy and impaired populations, for which we have in vivo muscle fascicle length data.
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