Usefulness of gated three-dimensional fetal echocardiography to reconstruct and display structures not visualized with two-dimensional imaging

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 665-668

  Sklansky, Mark S ^a,b   Nelson, Thomas R ^a   Pretorius, Dolores H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DATA DISPLAY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030931814     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00448-7     Document Type: Article

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