Research project: The measurement of Pelvic Floor Muscle (PFM) function in women using 2D dynamic ultrasound
Introduction: With an aging population stress urinary incontinence causes inconvenience and distress to an increasing number of women. There is a need to develop tools that will aid our understanding of the mechanisms that normally maintain urinary continence and their failure when subject to a stress such as that induced when an individual coughs. This project is investigating the analysis of 2D ultrasound dynamic movies as a means of gaining such information.