A Roadmap to Reconstructing Muscle Architecture from CT Data.

ABSTRACT: Skeletal muscle is responsible for voluntary force generation across animals, and muscle architecture largely determines the parameters of mechanical output. The ability to analyze muscle performance through muscle architecture is thus a key step towards better understanding the ecology and evolution of movements and morphologies. In pennate skeletal muscle, volume, fiber lengths, and attachment angles to force transmitting structures comprise the most relevant parameters of muscle architecture. Measuring these features through tomographic techniques offers an alternative to tedious and destructive dissections, particularly as the availability of tomographic data is rapidly increasing. However, there is a need for streamlined computational methods to access this information efficiently. He

SUBMITTER: Katzke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8857456 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature