TY - JOUR
T1 - 3D Ultrasound Strain Imaging of Puborectalis Muscle
AU - Das, Shreya
AU - Hansen, Hendrik H.G.
AU - Hendriks, Gijs A.G.M.
AU - van den Noort, Frieda
AU - Manzini, Claudia
AU - van der Vaart, C. Huub
AU - de Korte, Chris L.
N1 - Elsevier deal
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
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - 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 be used to image these muscles and to diagnose the damage by assessing quantitative, geometric and functional information of the muscles through strain imaging. In this study we developed 3D US strain imaging of the PF muscles and explored its application to the puborectalis muscle (PRM), which is one of the major PF muscles.
AB - 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 be used to image these muscles and to diagnose the damage by assessing quantitative, geometric and functional information of the muscles through strain imaging. In this study we developed 3D US strain imaging of the PF muscles and explored its application to the puborectalis muscle (PRM), which is one of the major PF muscles.
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - Obstetrics
KW - Pelvic floor
KW - Puborectalis
KW - Strain imaging
KW - Ultrasound
KW - 3D imaging
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098151334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.11.016
DO - 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.11.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098151334
VL - 47
SP - 569
EP - 581
JO - Ultrasound in medicine and biology
JF - Ultrasound in medicine and biology
SN - 0301-5629
IS - 3
ER -