Investigation of uterine peristalsis diurnal variation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1149-1155

  Kido, Aki ^a   Togashi, Kaori ^a   Nakai, Asako ^a   Kataoka, Masako ^a   Fujiwara, Toshitaka ^a   Kataoka, Milliam Lika ^a   Fujimoto, Ryota ^a   Koyama, Takashi ^a   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; MRI; Peristalsis; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PERISTALSIS; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 33750287673     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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