Quantitative assessment of fetal bowel echogenicity: Comparison of harmonic, compound, and fundamental sonographic images

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 302-307

  Lee, Hak Jong ^a   Cho, Jeong Yeon ^a,b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; Fetus; Gastrointestinal tract; Technolgy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0038798671     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.10180     Document Type: Article

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