Ultrasound techniques used in Functional Morphological Hand Research, BioMed Institute and Jessa Hospital, University of Hasselt, Belgium.

In the past few years, various photo-voltaic approaches have been applied to visualise soft tissues of healthy small joints of the finger, especially their tendons and ligaments (Wang et al., 2007, Optics Letters, 32, 20, 3002-3004; Sun et al., 2009, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 14, 6, 064002, 1/5). Results in vitro and in vivo respectively, were matched to cross-sectional histological images and to in vivo MRI cross-sections from similar joints. Especially the images by Wang and co-workers realistically display micro-anatomical positions of the extensor assembly's lateral tendon bands relati... Mehr ...