Open AccessTechnique development and measurement of cross-sectional area of the pubovisceral muscle on MRI scans of living women
Author(s) -
Mariana Masteling,
James A. AshtonMiller,
John O.L. DeLancey
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international urogynecology journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1433-3023
pISSN - 0937-3462
DOI - 10.1007/s00192-018-3704-5
Subject(s) - intraclass correlation , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , percentile , anatomy , repeatability , tears , cross section (physics) , nuclear medicine , radiology , surgery , mathematics , physics , clinical psychology , statistics , quantum mechanics , psychometrics
Measurements of the anatomic cross-sectional area (CSA) of the pubovisceral muscle (PVM) in women are confounded by the difficulty of separating the muscle from the adjacent puborectal (PRM) and iliococcygeal (ICM) muscles when visualized in a plane orthogonal to the fiber direction. We tested the hypothesis that it might be possible to measure the PVM CSA within a defined region of interest based on magnetic resonance images (MRI).