Fetal Doppler: How to keep it safe?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 842-850

  Abramowicz, Jacques S ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

bioeffects; Doppler; fetus; safety; teratology; thermal index

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; B SCAN; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SAFETY; TERATOLOGY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

BIOPHYSICS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 78349257067     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e3181fbae34     Document Type: Review

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