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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2014 Aug 16;47(13):3325–3333. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.08.010

Table 1.

Musculotendon measurements for the BFlh. Biceps femoris long head (BFlh) musculotendon measurements were made on high-resolution MR images for track and field athletes. Measurements reported as average (standard deviation).

Structure Location Dimensions [cm]
Proximal free tendon Superior Width 0.8 (0.1)
Thickness 0.2 (0.1)
Middle Width 0.6 (0.1)
Thickness 0.2 (0.1)
Inferior Width 0.7 (0.2)
Thickness 0.2 (0.1)
n/a Length 7.0 (1.0)
Proximal aponeurosis Superior Width 0.7 (0.1)
Thickness 0.2 (0.0)
Middle Width 1.8 (0.3)
Thickness 0.1 (0.0)
Inferior Width 1.7 (0.4)
Thickness 0.1 (0.0)
n/a Length 17.9 (1.6)
Muscle Superior taper Width 2.3 (0.4)
Thickness 1.6 (0.2)
Distal aponeurosis end Width 4.8 (0.5)
Thickness 3.1 (0.5)
Middle Width 5.2 (0.4)
Thickness 3.6 (0.6)
Proximal aponeurosis end Width 4.7 (0.5)
Thickness 4.0 (0.5)
Inferior Width 3.6 (0.5)
Thickness 2.3 (0.4)
n/a Length 28.6 (2.1)
Distal aponeurosis Superior Width 5.8 (0.6)
Thickness 0.2 (0.0)
Middle Width 6.3 (0.7)
Thickness 0.2 (0.0)
Inferior Width 0.9 (0.2)
Thickness 0.1 (0.0)
n/a Length 18.7 (2.2)
Distal free tendon Superior Width 0.7 (0.1)
Thickness 0.2 (0.1)
Middle Width 0.7 (0.1)
Thickness 0.2 (0.1)
Inferior Width 0.8 (0.2)
Thickness 0.2 (0.1)
n/a Length 11.1 (1.7)