Fetal cardiac stroke volume determination by four-dimensional ultrasound with spatio-temporal image correlation compared with two-dimensional and Doppler ultrasonography

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1147-1150

  Rizzo, Giuseppe ^a   Capponi, Alessandra ^b   Cavicchioni, Ottavia ^a   Vendola, Marianne ^a   Arduini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Ospedale GB Grassi   (Italy)

Author keywords

4D ultrasound; Fetal cardiac stroke volume; Fetal echocardiography; STIC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETUS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; STROKE VOLUME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 37049037516     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1870     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Allan LD, Chita SK, Al-Ghazali W, Crawford DC, Tynan M. 1987. Doppler echocardiography evaluation of the normal human fetal heart. Br Heart J 57: 528-533.
2. Bhat AH, Corbett VN, Liu R, et al. 2004. Validation of volume and mass assessments for human fetal heart imaging by 4-dimensional spatiotemporal image correlation echocardiography: in vitro balloon model experiments. J Ultrasound Med 23: 1151-1159.
3. Bland JM, Altman DG. 2003. Applying the right statistics analyses of measurement studies. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 22: 85-93.
4. Chaoui R, Hoffmann J, Heling KS. 2004. Three-dimensional (3D) and 4D color Doppler fetal echocardiography using spatio-temporal image correlation (STIC). Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 23: 535-545.
5. Deng J, Rodeck CH. 2004. New fetal cardiac imaging techniques. Prenat Diagn 24: 1092-1103.
6. DeVore GR, Falkensammer P, Sklansky MS, Piatt LD. 2003. Spatio-temporal image correlation (STIC): new technology for evaluation of the fetal heart. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 22: 380-387.
7. Goncalves LF, Lee W, Chaiworapongsa T, et al. 2003. Four-dimensional ultrasonography of the fetal heart with spatiotemporal image correlation. Am J Obstet Gynecol 189: 1792-1802.
8. Groenenberg IA, Wladimiroff JW, Hop WC. 1989. Fetal cardiac and peripheral arterial flow velocity waveforms in intrauterine growth retardation. Circulation 80: 1711-1717.
9. Messing B, Cohen SM, Valsky DV. et al. 2007. Fetal cardiac ventricle volumetry in the second half of gestation assessed by 4D ultrasound using STIC combined with inversion mode. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 30: 142-151.
10. Paladini D. 2007. Standardization of on-screen fetal heart orientation prior to storage of spatio-temporal image correlation (STIC) volume datasets (Editorial). Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 29: 605-611.
11. Rizzo G, Arduini D, Romanini C. 1992. Doppler echocardiographic assessment of fetal cardiac function. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2: 434-445.
12. Rizzo G, Capponi A, Cavicchioni O, Vendola M, Arduini D. 2007. Examination of the fetal heart by four-dimensional ultrasound with spatio-temporal image correlation during routine second trimester examination: the "three steps technique". Fetal Diagn Ther, in press.
13. Silverman NH. 1993. Quantitative methods to enhance morphological information using M-Mode, Doppler and cross-sectional ultrasound. In Pediatric Echocardiography, Silverman NH (ed.). Williams and Wilkins: Baltimore, MD; 52-56.
14. Simpson J. 2004. Echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac function in the fetus. Prenat Diagn 24: 1081-1091.
15. Yagel S, Cohen SM, Shapiro I, Valsky DV. 2007. 3D and 4D ultrasound in fetal cardiac scanning: a new look at the fetal heart. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 29: 81-95.