Mechanical properties of the human uterine cervix: An in vivo study

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-136

  Mazza, Edoardo ^a   Nava, Alessandro ^a   Bauer, Margit ^b   Winter, Raimund ^b   Bajka, Michael ^c   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^d,e  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aspiration device; Constitutive modelling; Image analysis; In vivo experiment; Mechanical properties; Preterm delivery; Uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE;

ASPIRATION DEVICE; CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING; IN VIVO EXPERIMENT; PRETERM DELIVERY; UTERINE CERVIX;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MENOPAUSE; METHODOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS FUNCTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOMECHANICS; CERVIX UTERI; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VACUUM;

EID: 31744448072     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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