Novel application of four-dimensional sonography with B-flow imaging and spatiotemporal image correlation in the assessment of fetal congenital heart defects

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 614-619

  Hongmei, Wu ^a   Ying, Zhang ^a   Ailu, Cai ^a   Wei, Sun ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

B flow imaging; congenital heart disease; fetal heart; fetus; four dimensional ultrasound; spatiotemporal image correlation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; ARTICLE; B FLOW IMAGING; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR VENA CAVA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; THORAX WALL;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84860440595     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01639.x     Document Type: Article

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