Multicentre study of fetal cardiac time intervals using magnetocardiography

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1235-1243

  Stinstra, J ^a   Golbach, E ^a   Van Leeuwen, P ^b   Lange, S ^b   Menendez, T ^c   Moshage, W ^c   Schleussner, E ^d   Kaehler, C ^d   Horigome, H ^e   Shigemitsu, S ^e   Peters, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b EFMT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR; LITERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; P WAVE; PR INTERVAL; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RELIABILITY; SCALP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T WAVE; WAVEFORM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036876929     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2002.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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