Biomechanics of the female pelvic floor. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lennox Hoyte, Margot Damaser.
• Editors: Hoyte, Lennox P. John; Damaser, Margot
• Contents: Section 1: Principles of Pelvic Floor Anatomy & Biomechanics 1. History of Biomechanics 2. Pelvic floor Anatomy and Pathology 3. Musculoskeletal PF anatomy 4. Introduction to Classical Mechanics 5. Biomechanical Characterization of Native Pelvic Floor Organs and Tissues 6. Biomechanical measurements in animal models 7. Biomechanics of pelvic floor prosthetic materials Section 2: Influencers of Pelvic Floor Biomechanics 8. Biochemistry and Ultrastructure of pelvic floor tissues and organs 9. Impact of Genetics on pelvic floor biomechanics 10. Impact of Pregnancy/Childbirth on pelvic floor biomechanics 11. Biomechanical environment of the pelvic floor 12. Effect of Physical activity on the pelvic floor Section 3: Imaging and Segmentation of Pelvic Floor 13. Ultrasound Imaging of the pelvic floor 14. MRI imaging of PF 15. Geometric representation of PF tissues 16. Image segmentation of pelvic floor (including super-resolution imaging methods) 17. Biomechanical Characterization of the Pelvic Floor using Tactile Imaging Section 4: Biomechanical Modeling and Simulation of Pelvic Floor 18. Computational Tools for Pelvic Floor Biomechanical analysis 19. Applications of pelvic floor Modeling and Simulation 20. Building PF Simulations 21. Simulations of Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunction 22. Biomechanical Childbirth Simulations Section 5: Conclusions 23. PF biomechanics - What have we learned, what can we learn? 24. Future work/directions
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 617.55; Pelvic floor -- Diseases; Biomechanics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128032299
• Related ISBNs: 9780128032282
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