Optimization of the artificial urinary sphincter: Modelling and experimental validation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1361-1375

  Marti, Florian ^a,b   Leippold, Thomas ^b   John, Hubert ^b   Blunschi, Nadine ^a   Müller, Bert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE;

ARTIFICIAL URINARY SPHINCTER; BLADDER PRESSURE; SPHINCTER LENGTH; STRANGULATION EFFECTS;

UROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; BLADDER SPHINCTER PROSTHESIS; BLADDER WALL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URETHRA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DOGS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; URETHRA; URINARY SPHINCTER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 33144470254     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/5/023     Document Type: Article

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