New fetal cardiac imaging techniques

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1092-1103

  Deng, Jing ^a,b,c   Rodeck, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac modelling; Dynamic three dimensional; Echocardiography; Fetal heart; Real time imaging

Indexed keywords

B SCAN; BIOMICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS HEART; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 11144230801     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1066     Document Type: Review

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