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Human Fetal Blood Flow Quantification with Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Motion Compensation
Published on: January 7, 2021
Prenatal diagnosis of fetal inferior vena cava malformation using HDlive flow combined with spatiotemporal image
Hong-Xia Tie1,2, Bin Ma2,3, Deng-Cai Zhang4
1The First Clinical Medical College of Ultrasound Diagnosis, Gansu University of traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, P. R. China.
Objectives:
This study aimed to examine the application value of high-definition live (HDlive) flow combined with spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) in the diagnosis of fetal inferior vena cava malformation (IVCM).
Methods:
Twenty cases of IVCMs were diagnosed using two-dimensional HDlive flow and HDlive flow combined with STIC and retrospectively analyzed to examine the impact of using HDlive flow combined with STIC in the diagnosis of IVCM.
Results:
HDlive flow combined with STIC detected one case of duplicated IVC, four cases of left IVC (two cases with complex malformations), and 15 cases of interrupted IVC (two cases of isolated IVC disconnection, five cases with left atrial heterogeneous syndrome, and eight cases with other complex malformations).
Conclusion:
HDlive flow combined with STIC can help in the diagnosis of IVCM, and this technique has important clinical value.
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