Monitoring the fetal heart non-invasively: A review of methods

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 408-416

  Peters, Maria ^a   Crowe, John ^b   Piéri, Jean Francois ^b   Quartero, Hendrik W P ^c   Hayes Gill, Barrie ^b   James, David ^b   Stinstra, Jeroen ^a   Shakespeare, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiotocography; Fetal electrocardiography; Fetal heart rate; Fetal magnetocardiography; Fetal monitoring

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0035231729     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2001.057     Document Type: Article

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