Uterine contractility evaluated on cine magnetic resonance imaging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1101, Issue , 2007, Pages 62-71

  Togashi, Kaori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cine magnetic resonance imaging; Dysmenorrhea; Infertility; Peristalsis; Uterine contraction

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LEIOMYOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERISTALSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS FUNCTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; UTERUS;

DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 34250613103     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1389.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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