Four-dimensional sonography with B-flow imaging and spatiotemporal image correlation for visualization of the fetal heart

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 204-207

  Hata, Toshiyuki ^a   Dai, Shu Yan ^a   Inubashiri, Eisuke ^a   Kanenishi, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Hirokazu ^a   Yanagihara, Toshihiro ^a   Araki, Seiko ^b  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GE Yokogawa Medical Systems   (Japan)

Author keywords

B flow sonography; Congenital heart disease; Fetal heart; Four dimensional ultrasound; Obstetrics; Spatiotemporal image correlation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIASTOLE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; SYSTOLE;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD;

EID: 42149123246     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20478     Document Type: Article

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