pcsa: Physiological cross-sectional area of muscles (PCSA)

In MorphoFun/kraken: Analyses for bone biomechanics

Physiological cross-sectional area of muscles (PCSA)

Description

pcsa allows one to estimate the physiological cross-sectional area of a muscle

Usage

pcsa(mass, pennationAngle, fiberLength, density, stringAsFactors = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

mass	Numerical value of the muscle mass, in units of kilograms.
pennationAngle	Numerical value of the pennational angle of the muscle, in units of degrees.
fasicleLength	Numerical value of the muscle fiber length, in units of meters. Often assumed to be average muscle fiber length.
density	Numerical value of the muscle density. Defaults to 1060 kg/m^3, a typical value for striated muscles (Biewener 2003)

Details

See description in Hutchinson et al. (2015) and Sacks and Roy (1982) for more details regarding the calculation of PCSA.

References

Biewener AA. 2003. Animal locomotion. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Hutchinson JR, Rankin JW, Rubenson J, Rosenbluth KH, Siston RA, Delp SL. 2015. Musculoskeletal modelling of an ostrich (Struthio camelus) pelvic limb: influence of limb orientation on muscular capacity during locomotion. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1001

Sacks RD, Roy RR. 1982. Architecture of The Hind Limb Muscles of Cats: Functional Significance. Journal of Morphology, 185-195. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1051730206/abstract

Examples

pcsa(0.3788, 0, 0.174)

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