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Fig. 4 | BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation

Fig. 4

From: Reliability and methodology of quantitative assessment of harvested and unharvested patellar tendons of ACL injured athletes using ultrasound tissue characterization

Fig. 4

Example of contours drawn in cross-sectional view in harvested (a) and unharvested (b) patellar tendons. Echo-types I are shown as green, echo-type 2 as blue, echo-type III as red, and echo-type 4 as black. Note that only the area inside the marked yellow circumference is quantified as patellar tendon, and it is in this area that all calculations regarding relative percentages of different echo-types are made

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