Portable obstetrical ultrasound calculation and analysis using an inexpensive laptop microcomputer and simple basic program.
This paper describes the use of a commercially available inexpensive portable laptop microcomputer and a simple user-friendly software package that allows rapid, portable obstetrical ultrasound calculation in the reading room, delivery suite, office setting, or over the telephone. The program is written in BASIC and may be modified by the user. The programming philosophy is described and a variety of BASIC subroutines and formulae useful to the obstetrical sonologist are listed. All fetal parameter formulae are referenced.
Dunne
M G
MG
Department of Radiology, Scott and White, Temple, Texas 76508.
Dunne
S B
SB
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D008838:Microcomputers / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation*