Fetal and placental power Doppler imaging in normal and high-risk pregnancy

European Journal of Ultrasound

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-230

  Dubiel, Mariusz ^a   Kozber, Hanna ^a   Debniak, Boguslaw ^a   Breborowicz, Grzegorz H ^a   Marsal, Karel ^b   Gudmundsson, Saemundur ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer analysis; Power Doppler; Redistribution of circulation; Tissue perfusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS LIVER; FETUS LUNG; GESTATION PERIOD; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE PERFUSION;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0032828043     PISSN: 09298266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-8266(99)00027-0     Document Type: Article

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