Four-dimensional volume-rendered imaging of the fetal ventricular outflow tracts and great arteries using inversion mode for detection of congenital heart disease

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 513-518

  Hata, Toshiyuki ^a   Tanaka, Hirokazu ^a   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Dai, Shu Yan ^b   Yamaguchi, Mika ^c   Yanagihara, Toshihiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GE Yokogawa Medical Systems   (Japan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

4D ultrasound; Congenital heart disease; Fetal great arteries; Fetal ventricular outflow tracts; Inversion mode; STIC

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77953337528     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2010.01224.x     Document Type: Article

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