Alteration in the low-frequency domain in power spectral analysis of fetal heart beat fluctuations

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 92-97

  Ohta, Tsukasa ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a   Kimura, Yoshitaka ^a   Suzuki, Toshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Takanori ^a   Yasui, Tomoharu ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Yajima, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal blood; Fetal heart beat fluctuation; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0032966156     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020896     Document Type: Article

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