Analysis of Segmental and Global Function of the Fetal Heart Using Novel Automatic Functional Imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 146-150

  Ta Shma, Asaf ^a   Perles, Zeev ^a   Gavri, Sagui ^a   Golender, Julius ^a   Tarshansky, Shulamit ^a   Shlichter, Chava ^a   Bar Tov, Hadassah ^a   Rein, Azaria J J T ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AUTOMATION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 38749088355     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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