Prenatal screening for congenital heart disease using real-time three-dimensional echocardiography and a novel 'sweep volume' acquisition technique

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 435-443

  Sklansky, M ^a,e   Miller, D ^a   Devore, G ^b   Kung, G ^a   Pretorius, D ^c   Wong, P ^a   Chang, R K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fetal Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal cardiology; Fetal echocardiography; Three dimensional echocardiography; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18844425490     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1858     Document Type: Article

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