Four-dimensional ultrasonography of the fetal heart using a novel Tomographic Ultrasound Imaging display

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-55

  Gonçalves, Luís F ^a,b,c   Espinoza, Jimmy ^a,b,c   Romero, Roberto ^a,b,d   Kusanovic, Juan Pedro ^a,b,c   Swope, Betsy ^a,b,c   Jyh, Kae Nien ^a,b   Erez, Offer ^a,b,c   Soto, Eleazar ^a,b,c   Treadwell, Marjorie C ^c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b Hutzel Women's Hospital ^*

^c HUTZEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; 4D; Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography; Four dimensional; Prenatal diagnosis; Spatio temporal; Spatiotemporal image correlation; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

B SCAN; CALCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACHEA;

CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 30844435084     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2006.006     Document Type: Review

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