Three dimensional virtual reality model of the normal female pelvic floor

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 292-296

  Parikh, Mansi ^a,b,c   Rasmussen, Mary ^d   Brubaker, Linda ^c   Salomon, Caryl ^c   Sakamoto, Kyoko ^c   Evenhouse, Raymond ^d   Ai, Zhumming ^d   Damaser, Margo S ^a,b,c  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Imaging; Pelvis

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING TECHNIQUES; ANATOMY; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; PELVIS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGAMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PELVIS FLOOR; REFERENCE VALUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PELVIC FLOOR; REFERENCE VALUES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 2942560590     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ABME.0000012749.79488.d6     Document Type: Article

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