Optimal filter design for shielded and unshielded ambient noise reduction in fetal magnetocardiography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5509-5521

  Comani, S ^a   Mantini, D ^b   Alleva, G ^a   Di Luzio, S ^a   Romani, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FETAL MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY (FMCG); FETAL SIGNAL DETECTION;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

ARTICLE; FETUS (ANATOMY); GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIA; FETAL HEART; FETAL MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 28644444543     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/23/006     Document Type: Article

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