Basic as well as detailed neurosonograms can be performed by offline analysis of three-dimensional fetal brain volumes

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-25

  Bornstein, E ^a   Monteagudo, A ^a   Santos, R ^a   Strock, I ^a   Tsymbal, T ^a   Lenchner, E ^a   Timor Tritsch, I E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Fetal brain; Fetal neurosonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77954300001     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.7527     Document Type: Article

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