Vaginal tactile imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1736-1744

  Egorov, Vladimir ^a   Van Raalte, Heather ^b   Sarvazyan, Armen P ^a  

^a ARTANN Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b Institute for Female Pelvic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastography; tactile imaging; tissue elasticity; vaginal prolapse

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; SURGERY; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; CLINICAL STUDY; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING TISSUES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; TACTILE IMAGER; TISSUE ELASTICITY;

ELASTICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; RIGIDITY; SENSOR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VAGINAL TACTILE IMAGING; DEVICES; ELASTICITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

AGED; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 77953793657     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2045757     Document Type: Article

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