Contribution of imaging to our understanding of sexual function and dysfunction

Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue , 2008, Pages 150-168

  Woodard, T ^a   Diamond, M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; THERMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 46449092564     PISSN: 00653268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000126629     Document Type: Review

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