Shirley Ryan AbilityLab 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Obtaining Quality Extended Field-of-View Ultrasound Images of Skeletal Muscle to Measure Muscle Fascicle Length Amy N. Adkins1,4,5, Wendy M. Murray1,2,3,4,5 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 3Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 4Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 5Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital This study describes how to obtain high quality musculoskeletal images using the extended field-of-view ultrasound (EFOV-US) method for the purpose of making muscle fascicle length measures. We apply this method to muscles with fascicles that extend past the field-of-view of common traditional ultrasound (T-US) probes.
