Reliability of fetal cardiac volumetry using spatiotemporal image correlation: Assessment of in-vivo and in-vitro measurements

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 308-314

  Uittenbogaard, L B ^a,b   Haak, M C ^a   Tromp, C H N ^a   Terwee, C B ^b   Van Vugt, J M G ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4D US; Agreement; Fetal echocardiography; Measurement error; Reliability; Spatiotemporal image correlation; Stroke volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; STROKE VOLUME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77956213732     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.7582     Document Type: Article

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