@Article{,
AUTHOR = {Arnaldo Mendez, Mohamad Sawan},
TITLE = {Chronic monitoring of bladder volume: a critical review and assessment of measurement methods},
JOURNAL = {Canadian Journal of Urology},
VOLUME = {18},
YEAR = {2011},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {5504--5516},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CJU/v18n1/61958},
ISSN = {1488-5581},
ABSTRACT = {Chronic monitoring of bladder volume can improve the 
clinical diagnosis and the choice of therapeutic approach 
for patients suffering from urinary dysfunction. It can 
also be employed to notify patients or healthcare personnel 
when the bladder should be emptied. An early warning 
can be triggered either when functional bladder capacity is 
reached or when an abnormally high postvoiding residual 
volume remains in the bladder after an unfinished voiding. 
Currently, neuroprosthetic implants are used in the 
treatment of refractory patients with overactive bladder, 
with urgency-frequency or with voiding complications. 
These implants can further enhance their performance, 
and also reduce their adverse-effects, by implementing a 
conditional stimulation based on the ongoing information of 
bladder volume. In this paper, we review the measurement 
methods used in past studies, we analyze and assess them, 
and lastly we pinpoint the one that we consider the optimal 
one for chronic monitoring of bladder volume.},
DOI = {}
}