Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 472-479 , May 2007

Assessment of muscle fatigue using sonomyography: Muscle thickness change detected from ultrasound images

  • J. Shi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    • School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
    • ,
  • Y.P. Zheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +852 27667664; fax: +852 23624365.
    • ,
  • X. Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    • ,
  • Q.H. Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Received 17 January 2006 ,Revised 28 June 2006 ,Accepted 4 July 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.07.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 472-479 , May 2007

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