2023fhml_hikspoors_developmental_anatomy_of_the_human_fetal_heart.pdf
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… - Address for correspondence: Universiteitssingel 50 6229ER Maastricht - Telephone: +31(0)43 388 1189 - E-mail: jill.hikspoors@maastrichtuniversity.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Information on the applicant - Initial(s), first name, surname: - Male/female: - Current work address: - Telephone: - E-mail: - WeChat: - Private address: 2. Details of applicant’s home university Note! A separate letter of recommendation by the supervisor or faculty dean of … malformations, which affect ~1% of newborn children. With ultrasound imaging becoming more and more detailed, an increasing fraction of these cardiac malformations becomes diagnosed prenatally, usually between 12 and 24 weeks of gestation. During this time interval, the details of cardiac structures and function that can be imaged increases strongly. A major drawback that impedes ultrasound imaging of early hearts is that only very few studies have visualized human fetal hearts at cellular detail. We have recently published a pictorial account of human heart development during the first 8 weeks of development (Hikspoors et al., 2022). This account studied heart development at cellular detail, reconstructed 70 structures three-dimensionally, and presented the results as interactive 3D-PDFs. These 3D-PDFs can be interrogated per structure and per developmental stage at a self-chosen …