3-dimensional sonographic volumetry of fetal brain, liver and myocardial mass-interdisciplinary clinical validation of the method and application in fetuses with and without structural heart disease

Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 60-68

  Schiessl, B ^a   Fakler, U ^b   Vogt, M ^b   Friese, K ^a   Hess, J ^b   Oberhoffer, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

fetal 3 dimensional ultrasound; fetal myocardial mass; fetal sonographic volumetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; LIVER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

BRAIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79955591878     PISSN: 09482393     EISSN: 14391651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1268431     Document Type: Article

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