174. Surface recorded fasciculation potential characteristics

Daube, Jasper R.; Kumar, Narasipur Lingaiah Rajendra

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2011.11.255

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“…Another common muscle movement of interest is fasciculations. Benign fasciculations are quite common, and a recent study by Daube and Kumar 63 suggests that, at least after vigorous exercise, these fasciculations occur in virtually 100% of normal individuals in the abductor hallucis muscle. Ultrasonography can also be used to count fasciculations in a given area of muscles.…”

Section: Muscle Ultrasonographymentioning

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Neuromuscular Ultrasonography: Quantifying Muscle and Nerve Measurements

Mayans

Cartwright

Walker

2012

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

101

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There is an inherent conflict between interpreting ultrasound imaging, which generates rich, highly textured complex representations of 3-dimensional space, and the rendering of these images into discrete measures for statistical analysis Reducing images to a small set of numbers, by necessity, ignores vast amounts of useful data, but the process is a prerequisite for generating objective information that can be shared by the clinical community. This article illustrates how ultrasound imaging is used in quantitative ways. The goal is not to supplant or diminish the importance of descriptive findings but to make the field amenable to statistical methods and standards for making diagnoses and designing therapeutic trials of new interventions. The discussion focuses first on muscle ultrasonography, a technique that was developed more than a decade earlier than nerve ultrasound, to illustrate key elements in determining how to best extract quantitative information from complex images. The discussion then applies some of these same principles to the study of 2 common nerve disorders.

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Section: Muscle Ultrasonographymentioning

confidence: 99%