Devonald K J, Ellwood D A, Griffiths K A, Kossoff G, Gill R W, Kadi A P, Nash D M, Warren P S, Davis W, Picker R
Department of Perinatal Ultrasound, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
J Ultrasound Med. 1995 Dec;14(12):919-25. doi: 10.7863/jum.1995.14.12.919.
Quasi-three-dimensional volume imaging provides an inexpensive means of evaluating the usefulness of three-dimensional imaging. The technique works most efficiently with water-skin interfaces and therefore we investigated its application in obstetrical ultrasonography. Three-dimensional perspectives of the normal and abnormal fetal head and face were spectacular and at times provided more information than the two-dimensional images. The ability of an inexperienced observer to interpret the three-dimensional image more easily may have a role in training sonographers and counseling parents whose fetuses have structural defects. Volume imaging has certain limitations and can only be used as a complementary technique.
