Preliminary investigations into a new method of functional assessment of the fetal heart using a novel application of 'real-time' cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 475-480

  Fogel, Mark A ^a,c   Wilson, R Douglas ^a   Flake, Alan ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a   Cohen, David ^a   McNeal, Gary ^b   Tian, Zhi Yun ^a   Rychik, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Congenital heart disease; Functional cardiac imaging; Real time imaging; True fast imaging with steady state precession

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS MONITORING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART INDEX; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STEADY STATE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 23944514283     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086837     Document Type: Article

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