Can MRI quantify the volume changes of denervated facial muscles?


https://doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2019.8918
Vol. 30 No. 1 (2020)
Submitted: 25 February 2020
Accepted: 4 March 2020
Published: 1 April 2020
Electrostimulation, facial paralysis, denervated muscle, muscle volume, MRI segmentation
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Authors

  • Valeria Mastryukova
    valeria.mastryukova@med.uni-jena.de
    ENT-Department, Jena University Hospital, Jena; Facial Nerve Center Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
  • Dirk Arnold ENT-Department, Jena University Hospital, Jena; Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology with Phyletic Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany.
  • Daniel Güllmar Medical Physics Group, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
  • Orlando Guntinas-Lichius ENT-Department, Jena University Hospital, Jena; Facial Nerve Center Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
  • Gerd Fabian Volk ENT-Department, Jena University Hospital, Jena; Facial Nerve Center Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.

Could manual segmentation of magnetic resonance images be used to quantify the effects of transcutaneous electrostimulation and reinnervation of denervated facial muscle? Five patients with unilateral facial paralysis were scanned during the study while receiving a daily surface electrostimulation of the paralytic cheek region, but also after reinnervation. Their facial muscles were identified in 3D (coronal, sagittal, and axial) and segmented in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for in total 28 time points over the 12 months of study. A non-significant trend of increasing muscle volume were detected after reinnervation. MRI is a valuable technique in the facial paralysis research.


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Mastryukova, V., Arnold, D., Güllmar, D., Guntinas-Lichius, O., & Volk, G. F. (2020). Can MRI quantify the volume changes of denervated facial muscles?. European Journal of Translational Myology, 30(1), 144–149. https://doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2019.8918

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