Biomechanical analysis of penile erections: Penile buckling behaviour under axial loading and radial compression

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-84

  Timm, Gerald W ^a,c   Elayaperumal, Santhi ^b   Hegrenes, Jami ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c Academic Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological pressure vessels; Penile buckling; Rigidity assessment; RigiScan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCE; FUNCTION TEST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PENIS BUCKLING; PENIS ERECTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SURFACE STRESS; TUNICA ALBUGINEA; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE, VASCULOGENIC; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS;

EID: 44849091181     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07569.x     Document Type: Article

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