2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Clinical application of diffusion tensor imaging for the skeletal muscle
| Project/Area Number |
21791169
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Radiation science
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | コンディショニング / トラクトグラフィー / 拡散テンソル / 核磁気共鳴スペクトロスコピー / 細胞内脂肪 / 骨格筋 |
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| Research Abstract |
It is very rare to perform skeletal muscle MRI in the daily practice. However, we applied diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which was new imaging technique, to the skeletal muscle, and we could make it possible to depict skeletal muscle fiber. In addition, we could grasp the microanatomy of the skeletal muscle by DTI.
Moreover, we could also realize to measure the lipid metabolism at the skeletal muscle using MR spectroscopy.
We have presented these several research results in the conference held in Japan, or the other international meetings. And also we presented it by three research papers during research period.
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