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ArticleBiomedical optics express2014

Assessment of local structural disorders of the bladder wall in partial bladder outlet obstruction using polarized light imaging.

Sanaz Alali, Karen J Aitken, Annette Schröder, Adam Gribble, Darius J Bagli, I Alex Vitkin

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Article in Biomedical optics express, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sanaz AlaliUniversity of Toronto, Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9 Canada.
Karen J AitkenUniversity of Toronto, Division of Urology, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada.
Annette SchröderUniversity of Toronto, Division of Urology, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada.
Adam GribbleUniversity of Toronto, Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9 Canada.
Darius J BagliUniversity of Toronto, Division of Urology, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Sick Kids Hospital, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada.
I Alex VitkinUniversity of Toronto, Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network and Department of Medical Biophysics, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9 Canada ; University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Oncology, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9 Canada.
University of Toronto · CAUniversity Health Network · CAHospital for Sick Children · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Partial bladder outlet obstruction causes prominent morphological changes in the bladder wall, which leads to bladder dysfunction. In this paper, we demonstrate that polarized light imaging can be used to identify the location of obstruction induced structural changes that other imaging modalities fail to detect. We induced 2-week and 6-week partial outlet obstruction in rats, harvested obstructed bladders, then measured their retardances while distended to high pressures and compared them to controls. Our results show that the retardance of the central part of the ventral side (above the ureters) closer to the urethra can be used as a potential metric of the distending bladder obstruction.

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(170.0110) Imaging systems(170.4580) Optical diagnostics for medicine(170.7230) Urology

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PMID24575354
PMCPMC3920890
OpenAlexW2048324762

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