Assessment of Doppler velocimetry of the fetal umbilical artery by multigate spectral Doppler scanning and traditional pulsed Doppler ultrasonography plus color flow mapping

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 831-835

  Prapas, Nikos ^a   Mari, Giancarlo ^a   Liang, Ren Ing ^a   Copel, Joshua A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Multigate spectral Doppler scanning; Reproducibility; Umbilical artery

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FETAL MONITORING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COLOR FLOW MAPPING; DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; MULTIGATE SPECTRAL DOPPLER SCANNING; PULSED DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAMINAR FLOW; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

EID: 0032717852     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1999.18.12.831     Document Type: Article

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