Four-chamber view and 'swing technique' (FAST) echo: A novel and simple algorithm to visualize standard fetal echocardiographic planes

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 423-431

  Yeo, L ^a,b   Romero, R ^a,b,c   Jodicke, C ^a,b   Ogge G ^a   Lee, W ^a,b   Kusanovic, J P ^a,b   Vaisbuch, E ^a,b   Hassan, S ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

congenital heart disease; fetal heart; four dimensional; OmniView; prenatal diagnosis; STIC; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79953144035     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.8840     Document Type: Article

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