Changes in fractal features of fetal heart rate during pregnancy

Early Human Development

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 655-661

  Kikuchi, Akihiko ^a   Unno, Nobuya ^a   Horikoshi, Tsuguhiro ^a   Shimizu, Toshiyuki ^b   Kozuma, Shiro ^c   Taketani, Yuji ^c  

^a NAGANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Chaos and Complexity Research Department   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal heart rate; Fractal analysis; Fractal dimension; Gestational age

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; FETUS; FRACTALS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 23044437787     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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