Vascular Imaging in Prenatal Medicine
The following two articles look at the advantages of a new ultrasound technique in prenatal diagnostics: Advanced Dynamic Flow (ADF). While the authors use ADF for different purposes - K. S. Heling applies ADF for general vascular imaging and R. Schmitz focuses on fetal liver tumours and a fetal aneurysm in the vein of Galen - they both arrive at remarkably similar conclusions. But read for yourself.
Figure 1: Representation of the umbilical cord vessels with conventional colour Doppler and ADF. Note the overwriting of the vessel with conventional colour Doppler. With ADF the umbilical cord entanglement around the arm is clearly visible. There is a good differentiation between umbilical artery and vein.
This article was first published in the VISIONS, issue 07/2005, a publication of Toshiba Medical Systems
23.07.2007
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