Assessing repeatability of 3D Doppler indices obtained by static 3D and STIC power Doppler: A combined in-vivo / in-vitro flow phantom study

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 571-576

  Miyague, A H ^a   Raine Fenning, N J ^b   Polanski, L ^b   Martinez, L H ^c   Araujo Junior E ^c   Pavan, T Z ^a   Martins, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; imaging; reproducibility; spatiotemporal image correlation; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84886947834     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.12419     Document Type: Article

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