Influence of ultrasound focus depth on the association between echo intensity and intramuscular adipose tissue.
Yoshihiro FukumotoMasashi TaniguchiTetsuya HironoMasahide YagiMomoko YamagataRyusuke NakaiTsuyoshi AsaiYosuke YamadaMisaka KimuraNoriaki IchihashiPublished in: Muscle & nerve (2022)
By mitigating EI attenuation, EI with a focus depth adjusted to the ROI reflected IntraMAT more accurately than that without adjustment. However, it may not completely prevent the potential influence of depth-dependent attenuation of EI, especially for deeper muscles such as the VI.