Hemodynamic mechanisms of penile erection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 319-326

  Borowitz, Eli ^a   Barnea, Ofer ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Andrology; Computer simulation; Erectile function

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

ANDROLOGY; ARTERIAL INFLOW SYSTEM; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; PENILE ERECTION; VENOUS DRAINING SYSTEM;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PENIS; PENIS ERECTION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PRESSURE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEINS;

EID: 0034051979     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.827292     Document Type: Article

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