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Electronic versus conventional spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) fetal echocardiography: a direct comparison
- Source :
- The journal of maternal-fetalneonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians. 35(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Recent advances in Spatial Temporal Image Correlation (STIC) 4 D fetal echocardiography include the application of eSTIC based on electronic probe image acquisition. We aimed to directly compare the performance of conventional STIC versus eSTIC technique (B-Mode and color Doppler imaging) during off-line reconstruction of STIC/eSTIC fetal heart volume pairs.Pairs of B-Mode and Color Doppler STIC volumes were acquired sequentially by firstly conventional (STIC) followed by electronic (eSTIC) probes during 33 consecutive obstetric scans at median 23 (range 13-31) gestational weeks. The resulting 66 fetal heart volume pairs were assessed blindly off-line by a fetal cardiologist who documented feasibility of reconstruction, presence of motion artifacts, subjective image quality on a 4-level scale: 1-best to 4-non-diagnostic and morphological diagnosis, to enable a paired comparison of STIC and eSTIC in the same fetus under similar scanning conditions.eSTIC volumes had higher temporal resolution (37 vs. 24 frames per second,eSTIC was associated with more effective 4 D fetal heart reconstruction due to reduced motion artifacts and superior image quality in all planes, when compared to STIC. Early gestation reconstructions were not generally successful using either technology. Further study is needed to define the cost-effectiveness and diagnostic impact of eSTIC over conventional STIC and their role over, or in addition to, screening 2 D fetal echocardiography by appropriately trained sonographers.
- Subjects :
- Heart Defects, Congenital
Digital image correlation
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gestational Age
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Fetal Heart
Pregnancy
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
medicine
Image acquisition
Humans
Female
Electronics
business
Nuclear medicine
Fetal echocardiography
Echocardiography, Four-Dimensional
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14764954
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The journal of maternal-fetalneonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f742daaefa55ce8f42c356d8dbb89e44