The Z technique: An easy approach to the display of the midcoronal plane of the uterus in volume sonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 607-612

  Abuhamad, Alfred Z ^a   Singleton, Stephanie ^a   Zhao, Yueqin ^a   Bocca, Silvina ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Dimensional sonography; Coronal plane; Uterus; Volume sonography; Z technique

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORONAL PLANE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SONOGRAPHY; UTERUS; VOLUME SONOGRAPHY; Z TECHNIQUES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LEARNING; MACHINE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERUS; VOLUME ECHOGRAPHY; Z TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33646464856     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.5.607     Document Type: Article

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