Will a handheld ultrasound scanner be applicable for screening for heart abnormalities in newborns and children?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1007-1014

  Li, Xiaokui ^b   Mack, Gordon K ^b   Rusk, Rosemary A ^b   Dai, Xiao Nan ^b   El Sedfy, Ghada O M ^b   Davies, Crispin H ^b   Sahn, David J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 0141529907     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00489-9     Document Type: Article

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