Computer analysis of three-dimensional power angiography images of foetal cerebral, lung and placental circulation in normal and high-risk pregnancy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 321-327

  Dubiel, Mariusz ^a   Breborowicz, Grzegorz H ^a   Ropacka, Mariola ^a   Pietryga, Marek ^a   Maulik, Dev ^b   Gudmundsson, Saemundur ^c  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Computer analysis; Doppler; Fetus; Power angiography; Pregnancy; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BRAIN; CELLS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DOPPLER EFFECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DOPPLER SIGNALS; GESTATION; PREGNANCY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) ULTRASOUND (US);

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; ORGAN CIRCULATION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 14744270027     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.12.008     Document Type: Article

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