title: HDlive rendering images of the fetal stomach: a preliminary report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to show reconstruction of the fetal stomach using the HDlive rendering mode in ultrasound.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventeen healthy singleton fetuses at 18-34 weeks' gestational age were observed using the HDlive rendering mode of ultrasound in utero.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all of the fetuses, we identified specific spatial structures, including macroscopic anatomical features (e.g., the pyrous, cardia, fundus, and great curvature) of the fetal stomach, using the HDlive rendering mode. In particular, HDlive rendering images showed remarkably fine details that appeared as if they were being viewed under an endoscope, with visible rugal folds after 27 weeks' gestational age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study suggests that the HDlive rendering mode can be used as an additional method for evaluating the fetal stomach. The HDlive rendering mode shows detailed 3D structural images and anatomically realistic images of the fetal stomach. This technique may be effective in prenatal diagnosis for examining detailed information of fetal organs.
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan. reduzierung@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Eisuke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Inubashiri
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Kiyotaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akutagawa
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Katumaru
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuroki
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobuhiko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Kunihiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.affiliation: Sapporo Toho Hospital, Kita 17, Higashi 15, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 065-0017, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nomura
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D011247:Pregnancy; D013270:Stomach / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000196:embryology*; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal
keywords: 3D ultrasound; Fetal stomach; Gastric volume; HDlive