The role of three-dimensional imaging reconstruction to measure the corpus callosum: Comparison with direct mid-sagittal views

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 875-880

  Miguelote, R F ^a,b   Vides, B ^c   Santos, R F ^b   Palha, J A ^a   Matias, A ^d   Sousa, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave ^*  (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Corpus callosum; Fetal neurosonogram; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80051946059     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2794     Document Type: Article

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