--- a +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + +### Summary + +The following data set contains the raw MRI (T1-weighted) and DTI scans of the dominant lower leg +of 32 adults (males, females, young adults, older adults). These data were used to analyse the +regional variation in muscle fibre lengths in the medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscles. The T1- +weighted scans were used to segment the muscles and the DTI scans were used to reconstruct the +muscle fibre architecture. For the latter, a previously published pipeline was implemented (Bolsterlee +et al., 20191). The Matlab scripts that were then used to further process and assign the reconstructed +muscle fibres to specific muscle regions are also available with the data set. Below is additional +information that can be used complementary to the information provided in the manuscript. The first +section describes the implementation of the previously published pipeline for fibre tracking 1. While +this may provide some additional information to help describe the structure of the current data set, +we recommend the documentation originally published for this pipeline1. The second section +provides additional information to the reasoning and implementation of further analyses to assess +the regional muscle fibre lengths from the data. Please cite the appropriate sources when using any +of these analysis scripts or data. \ No newline at end of file