Feasibility of quantification of the distribution of blood flow in the normal human fetal circulation using CMR: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Seed, Mike ^a   Van Amerom, Joshua F P ^a   Yoo, Shi Joon ^a   Al Nafisi, Bahiyah ^a   Grosse Wortmann, Lars ^a   Jaeggi, Edgar ^a   Jansz, Michael S ^a   MacGowan, Christopher K ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circulation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Regional blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DESCENDING AORTA; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; METRIC OPTIMISED GATING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; UMBILICAL VEIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84869890269     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: 1532429X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429X-14-79     Document Type: Article

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