Three- and four-dimensional freehand fetal echocardiography: A feasibility study using a hand-held Doppler probe for cardiac gating

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 362-371

  Herberg, U ^a   Goldberg, H ^b   Breuer, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MedConsult ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

3D; 4D; Cardiac gating; Congenital heart disease; Fetal Doppler; Fetal echocardiography; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GATED IMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 17444387420     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1839     Document Type: Article

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