How the Cervix shortens: An anatomic study using 3-dimensional transperineal sonography and image registration in singletons and twins

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1197-1204

  Parikh, Reshma ^a   Patel, Atur ^b   Stack, Trevor ^b   Socrate, Simona ^c   House, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 dimensional sonography; Cervical anatomy; Cervical shortening

Indexed keywords

ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

3-DIMENSIONAL SONOGRAPHY; ANATOMIC CHANGES; CERVICAL ANATOMY; CERVICAL SHORTENING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMAGE REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX;

CERVIX UTERI; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80052462233     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.9.1197     Document Type: Article

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