Contemporary clinical applications of spatio-temporal image correlation in prenatal diagnosis

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-102

  Espinoza, Jimmy ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

fetal echocardiography; four dimensional; spatio temporal image correlation

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMAGE QUALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIO TEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TOMOGRAPHIC ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEMEDICINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79953162494     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e328342ef38     Document Type: Article

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