Fetal echocardiography in three and four dimensions

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 979-986

  Deng, Jing ^a,b   Gardener, John E ^a   Rodeck, Charles H ^a   Lees, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic three dimensional (four dimensional); Echocardiography; Fetal heart; Medical imaging; Three dimensional; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FETAL MONITORING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ATRIAL SEPTA; ELECTROMAGNETIC POSITION SENSOR; FETAL CARDIAC PHASE; FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE; PRENATAL CARDIAC MALFORMATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAMS; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VENTRICULAR SEPTA;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS HEART; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030461379     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(96)00119-6     Document Type: Article

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