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The paper presents results of study of medial head of gastrocnemius muscle morphological parameters applying ultrasonography. The tests were performed on 6 probants on dominant limb. Basing on the ultrasound scans dataset the following parameters were measured: pennation angle, fiber bundles length, mean echo intensity inversely proportional to the muscle density, muscle thickness, anatomical and physiological cross-sectional area. The parameters were measured in 3 various ankle positions (95\(^{\circ }\), 110\(^{\circ }\), 130\(^{\circ }\)), on 3 scans recorded in various locations (proximal, central and distal). The results of study were analysed in order to check the influence of ankle positions and scan position.
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Measurements were performed using equipment provided by Aesculap BBraun (Tuttlingen, Germany). We express special thanks to Prof. Josef Kozak for providing the devices for tests. This work benefited from the use of the ImageJ public domain Java image processing program and available at www.imagej.nih.gov/ij/. This work was supported by Wroclaw University of Technology in frames of financial support of statutory activities in 2014 donated by Ministry of Science and Higher Education—inter alia: financing for conducting research and development work and related tasks, contributing to the development of young scientists and doctoral students. Grant no: B40051/K1008.
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Świątek-Najwer, E., Czajkowska, U., Jankowski, L.J. (2016). The Ultrasound Investigation of the Medial Head of Gastrocnemius Muscle. In: Piętka, E., Badura, P., Kawa, J., Wieclawek, W. (eds) Information Technologies in Medicine. ITiB 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 471. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39796-2_17
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