3D Ultrasound Strain Imaging of Puborectalis Muscle

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3D Ultrasound Strain Imaging of Puborectalis Muscle
 
Das, Shreya; Hansen, Hendrik H.G.; Hendriks, Gijs A.G.M.; van den Noort, Frieda; Manzini, Claudia; van der Vaart, C. Huub; de Korte, Chris L.
(2021) Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, volume 47, issue 3, pp. 569 - 581
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Abstract
The female pelvic floor (PF) muscles provide support to the pelvic organs. During delivery, some of these muscles have to stretch up to three times their original length to allow passage of the baby, leading frequently to damage and consequently later-life PF dysfunction (PFD). Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging can ... read more
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Keywords: 3D imaging, Obstetrics, Pelvic floor, Puborectalis, Strain imaging, Ultrasound, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Biophysics, Acoustics and Ultrasonics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.11.016
ISSN: 0301-5629
Publisher: Elsevier USA
Note: Funding Information: This research is supported by the project Gynecological Imaging using 3D Ultrasound (GYNIUS, Project No. 15301) from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Funding Information: This research is supported by the project Gynecological Imaging using 3D Ultrasound (GYNIUS, Project No. 15301) from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). We thank Philips Healthcare (Bothell, WA, USA) for providing us the EPIQ 7G US system for data acquisition as well as the license for the proprietary software QLAB (Philips Healthcare, Andover, MA, USA) for data conversion. We also thank NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA, USA) for donating a Titan V graphics card for our work. There was no conflict of interest in this work. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors
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