A systematic approach to the use of the multiplanar display in evaluation of abnormal vascular connections to the fetal heart using 4-dimensional ultrasonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1461-1467

  Espinoza, Jimmy ^a,b,d   Hassan, Sonia S ^b   Gotsch, Francesca ^a   Kusanovic, Juan Pedro ^a   Lee, Wesley ^c   Erez, Offer ^a   Gonçalves, Luís F ^a,b   Schoen, Mary Lou ^b   Romero, Roberto ^a,b,d  

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

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography; Prenatal diagnosis; Spatiotemporal; Spatiotemporal image correlation; Vascular connections

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; VASCULAR CONNECTIONS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY SINUS; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EVALUATION; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LYMPHANGIOMA; MULTIPLANAR DISPLAY; STANDARD; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORAX LYMPHANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DATA DISPLAY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 38549134088     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.11.1461     Document Type: Article

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