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Muscle Parameter Optimizer
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Introduction
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Estimation of optimal fiber length and tendon slack length in Hill-type muscle models
included in musculoskeletal models can be challenging.
This project presents an optimization based technique to adjust muscle parameters of
models linearly scaled from a generic reference model and to obtain reasonable estimation
of optimal fiber lengths and tendon slack lengths in models generated from medical images.

This project provides an OpenSim plugin, equivalent Matlab tools and a command-line application
for estimating optimal fiber lengths and tendon slack lengths.




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Reference Manuals
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   installation
   setupfile
   matlab
   standalone
   guiplugin

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Acknowledgements
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The Muscle Optimizer Plugin & Toolbox are developed by the `Rehabilitation Engineering Group`_, `Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali`_,
`Universita' degli Studi di Padova`_, the `Centre For Musculoskeletal Research`_, `Griffith University`_.

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Monica Reggiani and Elena Ceseracciu acknowledge the financial support of the ICT
programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the
European Commission (`BioMot`_ project, grant number: 611695).

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