Imaging modalities to assess structural birth defects in mutant mouse models

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 176-184

  Tobita, Kimimasa ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoqin ^a   Lo, Cecilia W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EMBRYO; AUTOPSY; BIOMICROSCOPY; BIRTH DEFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROMAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77956664992     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20187     Document Type: Review

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