Umbilical artery waveform analysis based on maximum, mean and mode velocity in early human pregnancy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Ursem, Nicolette T C ^a   Brinkman, Hans J F ^e   Struijk, Piet C ^a   Hop, Wim C J ^b   Kempski, Mark H ^c   Keller, Bradley B ^d   Wladimiroff, Juriy W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Doppler signal processing; Doppler ultrasound; Fetal blood flow; Umbilical arteries; Velocimetry

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FETAL MONITORING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; FETAL BLOOD FLOW; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NOISE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PULSATILE FLOW; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0031984003     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(97)00206-8     Document Type: Article

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