Poster Title (Current Submission)
Development of an Efficient MRI-based Method of Assessing Trophic Changes in Quadriceps Muscle Size
Major(s)
Integrative Physiology
Minor(s)
Chemistry
Mentor Name
Dr. Glenn Williams
Mentor Department
Physical Therapy
Abstract
The assessment of trophic changes in muscle size is important in studies related to neuromuscular plasticity associated with injury, surgery, rehabilitation, aging, disuse, and-or disease. Magnetic resonance imaging offers a noninvasive method of assessing muscle size, but the segmentation of an entire volume of a muscle group requires significant time and effort and is therefore costly. This study assesses the accuracy and efficiency of a variety of methods that use smaller subsets of images to accomplish the goal of assessing muscle volume.
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Development of an Efficient MRI-based Method of Assessing Trophic Changes in Quadriceps Muscle Size
The assessment of trophic changes in muscle size is important in studies related to neuromuscular plasticity associated with injury, surgery, rehabilitation, aging, disuse, and-or disease. Magnetic resonance imaging offers a noninvasive method of assessing muscle size, but the segmentation of an entire volume of a muscle group requires significant time and effort and is therefore costly. This study assesses the accuracy and efficiency of a variety of methods that use smaller subsets of images to accomplish the goal of assessing muscle volume.