Zhong, Spottiswelde, Helm, Epstein, and Blemker. Imaging two-dimensional displacements and strains in skeletal muscle during joint motion by cine DENSE MR. Journal of Biomechanics, 41, pp. 532-540, 2008. (.pdf)

Gold, Pappas, Blemker, Whalen, Campbell, McAdams, Beaulieu. Abduction and external rotation in shoulder impingement: an open MR study on healthy volunteers initial experience. Radiology, 244(3), pp. 815-822, 2007. (link)

Blemker, Asakawa, Gold, and Delp.  Image-based musculoskeletal modeling: applications, advances, and future challenges.  Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 25, pp 441-51, 2007. (.pdf)

Asakawa, Blemker, Gold, and Delp. Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of muscle function after surgery, Skeletal Radiology, 35, pp 885-6, 2006. (.pdf)

Blemker and Delp. Rectus femoris and vastus intermedius fiber excursions predicted by three-dimensional muscle models. Journal of Biomechanics, 39, pp 1383-91, 2006. (.pdf)

Pappas, Blemker, Beaulieu, McAdams, Whalen, and Gold. In vivo anatomy of the neer and hawkins sign positions for shoulder impingement.  Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 15(1), pp 40-49, 2006. (.pdf)

Blemker and Delp. Three-dimensional representation of complex muscle architectures and geometries. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol 33,pp 661-673, 2005. (.pdf)

Blemker , Pinsky, and Delp. A 3D model of muscle reveals the causes of nonuniform strains in the biceps brachii. Journal of Biomechanics, vol 38, pp 657-665, 2005.(.pdf)

Hutchinson, Anderson, Blemker, and Delp. Analysis of hindlimb muscle moment arms in tyrannosaurus rex using a three-dimensional musculoskeletal computer model. Paleobiology, 31(4), pp. 676–701, 2005. (.pdf)

Teran, Sifakis, Blemker, Ng-Thow-Hing, Lau, and Fedkiw. Creating and simulating skeletal muscle from the visible human data set. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(3):317-28, 2005. (.pdf)

Asakawa, Blemker, Rab, Bagley, and Delp. Three-dimensional muscle-tendon geometry after rectus femoris transfer. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, vol 86-A, pp 348-354, 2004. (.pdf)

Gold, Asakawa, Blemker, and Delp. MR imaging evidence of scar tissue after rectus femoris transfer surgery. Skeletal Radiology, vol 33, pp 34-40, 2004. (.pdf)

Teran, Blemker, Ng-Thow-Hing, and Fedkiw.  Finite volume methods for simulation of muscle tissue. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Breen and M. Lin, pp. 68-74, 200 . (.pdf)

Asakawa, Nayak, Blemker, Delp, Nishimura, D., Pauly, J., and Gold, G. Real-time imaging of skeletal muscle tissue velocity. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol 18, pp 734-739, 2003. (.pdf)

Asakawa, Pappas, Blemker, Drace, and Delp. Cine phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging as a tool for quantification of skeletal muscle motion. Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology, vol 7, pp 287-295, 2003. (.pdf)

Asakawa, Blemker, Gold, and Delp. In vivo motion of the rectus femoris after tendon transfer surgery, Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 35, pp. 1029-1037, 2002. (.pdf)

Arnold, Blemker, and Delp.  Evaluation of a deformable musculoskeletal model for estimating muscle-tendon lengths during crouch gait.  Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 1-11, 2001. (.pdf)

Arnold, Salinas, Asakawa, and Delp, S. Accuracy of muscle moment arms estimated from MRI-based musculoskeletal models of the lower extremity. Computer-Aided Surgery, vol. 5, pp. 108-119, 2000. (.pdf)

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