TY - JOUR
T1 - Simultaneous 31P NMR spectroscopy and EMG in exercising and recovering human skeletal muscle
T2 - Technical aspects
AU - Vestergaard‐Poulsen, P.
AU - Thomsen, C.
AU - Sinkjær, T.
AU - Henriksen, O.
PY - 1994/2
Y1 - 1994/2
N2 - The bioenergetics of human skeletal muscle can be studied by 31P NMR spectroscopy (31P‐MRS) and by surface electromyography (SEMG). Simultaneous 31P‐MRS and SEMG permit accurate and noninvasive studies of the correlation between metabolic and electrical changes in exercising and recovering human skeletal muscle, a relationship that is still poorly understood. This study describes the optimization of skeletal muscle 31P‐MRS in a whole‐body magnet, involving surface coil design, utilization of adiabatic radio frequency pulses and advanced time‐domain fitting, to the technical design of SEMG. A nonmagnetic ergometer was used for ankle dorsi‐flexions that activated only the anterior tibia1 muscle as verified by post exercise imaging. The coil design and the adiabatic sechltanh pulse improved sensitivity by 45% and 56% respectively, compared with standard techniques. Simultaneous electromyographic recordings did not deteriorate the NMR spectra. The VARPRO time domain fitting routine was very suitable for estimating 31P muscle spectra. With these methods it was possible to accurately estimate parameters describing metabolic and electrical changes during rest, exercise and the entire recovery period with a 20‐s time resolution on a standard 1.5 T whole‐body NMR scanner.
AB - The bioenergetics of human skeletal muscle can be studied by 31P NMR spectroscopy (31P‐MRS) and by surface electromyography (SEMG). Simultaneous 31P‐MRS and SEMG permit accurate and noninvasive studies of the correlation between metabolic and electrical changes in exercising and recovering human skeletal muscle, a relationship that is still poorly understood. This study describes the optimization of skeletal muscle 31P‐MRS in a whole‐body magnet, involving surface coil design, utilization of adiabatic radio frequency pulses and advanced time‐domain fitting, to the technical design of SEMG. A nonmagnetic ergometer was used for ankle dorsi‐flexions that activated only the anterior tibia1 muscle as verified by post exercise imaging. The coil design and the adiabatic sechltanh pulse improved sensitivity by 45% and 56% respectively, compared with standard techniques. Simultaneous electromyographic recordings did not deteriorate the NMR spectra. The VARPRO time domain fitting routine was very suitable for estimating 31P muscle spectra. With these methods it was possible to accurately estimate parameters describing metabolic and electrical changes during rest, exercise and the entire recovery period with a 20‐s time resolution on a standard 1.5 T whole‐body NMR scanner.
KW - electromyography
KW - magnetic resonance spectroscopy
KW - muscle fatigue
KW - phosphorous metabolism
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U2 - 10.1002/mrm.1910310202
DO - 10.1002/mrm.1910310202
M3 - Article
C2 - 8133762
AN - SCOPUS:0028167538
SN - 0740-3194
VL - 31
SP - 93
EP - 102
JO - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
JF - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
IS - 2
ER -