Three-dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of fetal heart anatomy and function: Acquisition, analysis, and display

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-9

  Nelson, Thomas R ^a   Pretorius, Dolores H ^a   Sklansky, Mark ^b   Hagen Ansert, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Fetus, echocardiography; Heart, fetal; Three dimensional ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030059925     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.1.1     Document Type: Article

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