Satisfactory rate of post-processing visualization of fetal cerebral axial, sagittal, and coronal planes from three-dimensional volumes acquired in routine second trimester ultrasound practice by sonographers of peripheral centers

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1071-1076

  Rizzo, Giuseppe ^a   Pietrolucci, Maria Elena ^a   Capece, Giuseppe ^b   Cimmino, Ernesto ^c   Colosi, Enrico ^d   Ferrentino, Salvatore ^e   Sica, Carmine ^c   Di Meglio, Aniello ^c   Arduini, Domenico ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Centro di Diagnosi Prenatale   (Italy)

^c DIMED Diagnosi Prenatale   (Italy)

^d MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Centro di Diagnosi Prenatale   (Italy)

Author keywords

congenital central nervous system defects; fetal brain; fetal neurosonogram; prenatal diagnosis; Three dimensional ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTHER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79960029624     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2010.545922     Document Type: Article

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