Three-dimensional and four-dimensional ultrasound applications in fetal medicine

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-174

  Yagel, Simcha ^a   Cohen, Sarah M ^a   Messing, Baruch ^a   Valsky, Dan V ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

3D 4DUS; Fetal echocardiography; Fetal lung; Fetal thorax; Fetal weight estimation

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; BLADDER CAPACITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FACE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS LUNG; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS WEIGHT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; URINE; YOLK SAC;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67649577242     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e328329243c     Document Type: Review

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