Dynamic Ultrasound Imaging Applications to Quantify Musculoskeletal Function

Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging

Both MSUS and MR imaging are two suitable methods used in the investigation of immature skeleton of paediatric patients. It is important to keep in mind that these methods are complementary instead of exclusive, acting in a synergistic way when are properly combined. MSUS is a bedside method for evaluating children at all ages because of anaesthesiological support is not needed. From a paediatr...

Dynamic Spike Super-resolution and Applications to Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging

We consider the dynamical super-resolution problem consisting in the recovery of positions and velocities of moving particles from low-frequency static measurements taken over multiple time steps. The standard approach to this issue is a two-step process: first, at each time step some static reconstruction method is applied to locate the positions of the particles with super-resolution and, sec...

A Novel Application of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrasound is an attractive modality for imaging muscle and tendon motion during dynamic tasks and can provide a complementary methodological approach for biomechanical studies in a clinical or laboratory setting. Towards this goal, methods for quantification of muscle kinematics from ultrasound imagery are being developed based on image processing. The temporal resolution of these methods is t...

Dynamic ultrasound imaging—A multivariate approach for the analysis and comparison of time-dependent musculoskeletal movements

BACKGROUND Muscle functions are generally assumed to affect a wide variety of conditions and activities, including pain, ischemic and neurological disorders, exercise and injury. It is therefore very desirable to obtain more information on musculoskeletal contributions to and activity during clinical processes such as the treatment of muscle injuries, post-surgery evaluations, and the monitorin...

Quantitative Analysis of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Techniques and Clinical Applications