Open AccessMitochondrial capacity using NIRS and incomplete recovery curves: Proximal and Medial Vastus Lateralis muscle (Conference Presentation)
Author(s) -
Kevin K. McCully,
Zachary Liebowitz,
Maxwell D Sumner,
Samuel J Beard
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pubmed central
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.2546051
Subject(s) - computer science , presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , radiology
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used to measure muscle mitochondrial capacity (mVO2max) as the recovery rate constant of muscle metabolism after exercise. The current method requires as many as 50 short ischemic occlusions to generate 2 recovery rate constants.