Role of sonographic automatic volume calculation in measuring fetal cardiac ventricular volumes using 4-dimensional sonography: Comparison with virtual organ computer-aided analysis

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-270

  Rizzo, Giuseppe ^a   Capponi, Alessandra ^b   Pietrolucci, Maria Elena ^a   Arduini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b GB Grassi Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

4 dimensional sonography; Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography; Spatiotemporal image correlation; Stroke volume

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

4-DIMENSIONAL SONOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS; STROKE VOLUMES;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 75749094049     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.2.261     Document Type: Article

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