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The SARCUS project: evidence-based muscle assessment through ultrasound

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  1. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Stany Perkisas, Anne-Marie De Cock & Maurits Vandewoude

  2. Laboratory of Applied Biology and Neurophysiologie, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Stéphane Baudry

  3. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Klinikum, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

    Jürgen Bauer

  4. Rehabilitation Sciences Research Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    David Beckwée

  5. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    David Beckwée

  6. Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Hans Hobbelen & Harriët Jager-Wittenaar

  7. Department of Geriatrics, Medical University in Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

    Agnieszka Kasiukiewicz

  8. Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital “Agostino Gemelli”, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart School of Medicine, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Landi

  9. Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Parc de Salut Mar; Rehabilitation Research Group, Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Ester Marco

  10. University Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

    Ana Merello, Elisabet Sanchez & Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft

  11. Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland

    Karolina Piotrowicz

  12. Geriatrics Department, Parc Salut Mar, Institut Hospital Del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Dolores Sanchez-Rodriguez

  13. Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Aldo Scafoglieri

  14. Belgian Ageing Muscle Society, Brussels, Belgium

    Stany Perkisas, Stéphane Baudry, Aldo Scafoglieri & Maurits Vandewoude

  15. Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Hans Hobbelen

  16. Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Harriët Jager-Wittenaar

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Perkisas, S., Baudry, S., Bauer, J. et al. The SARCUS project: evidence-based muscle assessment through ultrasound. Eur Geriatr Med 10, 157–158 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-018-0141-4

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