Fetal Cerebellar Volume and Symmetry on 3-D Ultrasound: Volume Measurement with Multiplanar and Vocal Techniques

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1284-1289

  Rutten, M J ^a   Pistorius, L R ^a   Mulder, E J H ^a   Stoutenbeek, Ph ^a   de Vries, L S ^a   Visser, G H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Fetus; Prenatal; Three dimensional; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; CEREBELLUM; FETUS; INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; INTRAOBSERVER RELIABILITY; LONGITUDINAL GROWTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR GROWTH; PRENATAL; RIGHT AND LEFT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEASUREMENTS; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TITRATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67650217509     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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