Junichi Hata1, Kazuo Yagi1, Keigo
Hikishima2, Yuji Komaki2, Keiichi Yano3,
Kyouhito Iida3, Kazuo Mima3, Kuni Ohtomo3
1Dept. of Radiological Science, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan; 2Central Institute
for experimental Animals, Kanagawa, Japan; 3Dept. of Radiological
Technology, University of Tokyo Hospital, Bunkyou, Tokyo, Japan
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focus was put on diffusion anisotropy obtained by Diffusion Tensor Imaging:
DTI in this research, and it searched for the relation to skeletal muscle
morphological transformation by stress. This research added stress to the
thigh lower skeletal muscle. The change in muscle cell structure by stress
was evaluated by water diffusion anisotropy. The relation between the
skeletal muscle cell structure and diffusion anisotropy was shown by this
research. And, the possibility of this structure analysis by this method was
suggested.
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