Table 2 First-order grey-scale statistics of m. vastus lateralis. M. vastus lateralis for n = 9 healthy participants. Average values, (range), and [quartiles] are used for the average value of the 9 participants, whereas the mean, the variance, the skewness, the kurtosis, and the median are used to describe the distribution of the pixels in the individual ROI-images.

52.1

53.0

51.1

52.3

53.6

50.6

52.4

52.9

53.1

52.3

(39.1–68.2)

(42.0–61.9)

(39.0–61.4)

(37.9–61.1)

(41.1–65.5)

(42.7–57.2)

(42.4–58.5)

(38.5–66.2)

(38.9–69.7)

(39.4-64.2)

[42.7–60.5]

[44.6–59.9]

[42.9–57.6]

[45.2–58.7]

[44.1–60.5]

[45.5–54.7]

[48.6–57.5]

[46.7–57.5]

[46.2–60.1]

[46.6–60.3]

381.6

410.4

403.7

414.4

399.1

403.4

418.0

396.8

394.8

397.7

(299.3–513.5)

(331.7–503.2)

(3227–487.0)

(314.6–543.2)

(294.7–566.9)

(361.0–473.3)

(327.3–480.5)

(320.6–501.1)

(330.7–486.2)

(301.7–521.0)

[326.3–400.8]

[363.5–453.4]

[358.2–447.3]

[366.9–456.8]

[350.8–438.5]

[366.4–435.5]

[393.6–456.4]

[368.8–425.1]

[360.7–424.5]

[326.8–460.2]

0.7

0.7

0.8

0.8

0.6

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.7

0.8

(0.2–1.3)

(0.3–1.1)

(0.4–1.0)

(0.5–1.1)

(0.4–1.0)

(0.5–1.1)

(0.6–1.3)

(0.4–1.1)

(0.3–1.1)

(0.5–1.2)

[0.5–1.0]

[0.4–1.1]

[0.6–0.9]

[0.6–1.0]

[0.4–0.8]

[0.7–1.0]

[0.6–1.1]

[0.5–1.0]

[0.6–0.9]

[0.6–1.0]

0.3

0.3

0.4

0.4

0.2

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.5

(-0.6–1.8)

(-0.7–1.3)

(-0.3–1.0)

(-0.2–1.6)

(-0.4–1.2)

(-0.2–1.1)

(-0.2–1.6)

(-0.3–1.2)

(-0.6–1.2)

(-0.2–1.7)

[-0.3–1.1]

[-0.4–1.1]

[-0.2–0.9]

[-0.1–1.0]

[-0.4–0.6]

[0.1–0.8]

[-0.1–1.0]

[-0.1–0.9]

[0.0–0.7]

[-0.1–1.0]

49.4

49.9

47.8

49.0

50.8

46.6

48.3

49.7

49.9

49.1

(36.0–68.0)

(37.0–61.0)

(36.0–59.0)

(35.0–57.0)

(38.0–64.0)

(37.0–54.0)

(37.0–54.0)

(34.0–65.0)

(35.0–68.0)

(35.0–62.0)

[39.25–58.5]

[41.0–57.8]

[38.8–53.8]

[41.3–56.0]

[40.3–57.8]

[41.0–51.0]

[44.0–54.0]

[42.5–54.5]

[43.0–57.0]

[42.5–57.5]