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| Cardiac motion gated 3D image of a 22-week fetal heart
in utero. Fine structures such as the foramen ovale valve and papillary
muscle are depicted. [GIF 286KB]
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Before gating, fine structures are degraded by motion
artefacts (red arrows). [GIF 311KB] |
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| Another cut of the thorax (and abdomen) shows
an end-systolic gated view of the four chambers and great vessels. [GIF
340KB] |
The same fetal heart in a negative surface
display (i.e., cavities shown in solid) showing the spatial relationships
of the cardiovascular structures. End-systolic gated. A shorter movie [GIF
784KB] |
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| This is a pair of cardiac models prototyped
from the 3D ultrasound data set of the same live fetal heart (above).
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about PROTOTYPING with digital image data sets from this group. |
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