ReviewJournal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI2025
From Voxels to Physiology: A Review of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications in Skeletal Muscle.
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- Standardizing quantitative muscle MRI: an inter-vendor evaluation in healthy adults.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Overcoming pitfalls in multi-stack diffusion MRI for tractography reconstruction of skeletal muscles.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Quantitative evaluation of cervical muscles in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy using diffusion tensor imaging metrics.Bone & joint research · 2026Article
- Sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus: an imaging review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Elasticity mapping of gastrocnemius fascia and myotendinous junction of the medial gastrocnemius during passive ankle and knee dorsiflexion.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Improved Strength Prediction Combining MRI Biomarkers of Muscle Quantity and Quality.NMR in biomedicine · 2025Article
- Dual-channel fluorescence biosensor for simultaneous miR-133a and ATP detection in living muscle cells.Mikrochimica acta · 2025Article
- Impact of Wrist and Finger Extension on Passive Joint Torques and Their Association with Forearm Flexor Muscle Structure in Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy: Early Findings.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2025Article
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Rat Rotator Cuff Muscle With Histopathological Correlation: An Exploratory Study.NMR in biomedicine · 2025Article
- Quantifying structural properties of forearm flexor muscles in individuals with hemiparetic cerebral palsy using diffusion tensor imaging.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Method of Forearm Muscles 3D Modeling Using Robotic Ultrasound Scanning.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Skeletal muscle has a classic structure function relationship; both skeletal muscle microstructure and architecture are directly related to force generating capacity. Biopsy, the gold standard for evaluating muscle microstructure, is highly invasive, destructive to muscle, and provides only a small amount of information about the entire volume of a muscle. Similarly, muscle fiber lengths and pennation angles, key features of muscle architecture predictive of muscle function, are traditionally studied via cadaveric dissection. Noninvasive techniques such as diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) offer quantitative approaches to study skeletal muscle microstructure and architecture. Despite its prevalence in applications for musculoskeletal research, clinical adoption is hindered by a lack of understanding regarding its sensitivity to clinically important biomarkers such as muscle fiber cross-sectional area. This review aims to elucidate how dMRI has been utilized to study skeletal muscle, covering fundamentals of muscle physiology, dMRI acquisition techniques, dMRI modeling, and applications where dMRI has been leveraged to noninvasively study skeletal muscle changes in response to disease, aging, injury, and human performance. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 5 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.
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