Three-dimensional power Doppler ultrasound for the assessment of the fetal brain blood flow in normal gestation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1273-1279

  Chang, Chiung Hsin ^a   Yu, Chen Hsiang ^a   Ko, Huei Chen ^a   Chen, Chu Ling ^a   Chang, Fong Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fetal brain blood flow; Histogram analysis; Three dimensional power Doppler ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

GESTATIONAL AGE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0141638529     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(03)00982-7     Document Type: Article

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