Spatio‐temporal image correlation (STIC): a new tool for the prenatal screening of congenital heart defects

To assess the feasibility and capability of STIC acquisition, performed by a general obstetrician performing antenatal ultrasound, to visualize fetal cardiac structures in women undergoing routine obstetric ultrasound examination, in order to obtain information to confirm normality of the fetal heart during intrauterine life.

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