title: Quantitative method for comparison of skeletal muscle architectural properties.
abstract: A numerical method is presented which calculates the architectural difference index between two muscles. This index is based upon the parameters, identified using statistical discriminant analysis, which best characterize the various muscles. This index can be used to reduce multiple architectural properties into a single value and may be useful in selecting donor muscles which are required to perform a substitute function for another muscle which has been lost or injured.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics (V-151), University of California, San Diego.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Lieber
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D006225:Hand; D006614:Hindlimb; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009132:Muscles / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D009210:Myofibrils / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011817:Rabbits; D014953:Wrist