Are Current Measurements of Lower Extremity Muscle Architecture Accurate?

By Samuel Ward, Carolyn M. Eng, Laura H. Smallwood, R. Lieber. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2009

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Muscular strategy shift in human running: dependence of running speed on hip and ankle muscle performance (2012, methodology): “Further, muscle morphological parameters assumed in the model were updated with the most recent data obtained from a comprehensive cadaver dissection study (Ward et al., 2009).”
A Model of the Lower Limb for Analysis of Human Movement (2009, methodology): “Here, we describe a new model of the lower limb based on experimentally measured muscle architecture from 21 subjects 44 that meets these criteria.”
Full-Body Musculoskeletal Model for Muscle-Driven Simulation of Human Gait (2016, methodology): “Our model’s chosen musculotendon parameters represent an average individual based on experimental data from the literature [20], [26].”
Is my model good enough? Best practices for verification and validation of musculoskeletal models and simulations of movement. (2015, background): “Optimal fiber length varies by subject and within regions of each muscle [96] and muscle force predictions have been shown to be sensitive to the optimal fiber length during gait [109,117–119], and likely most other motions.”