Fetal auditory responses to external sounds and mother's heart beat: Detection improved by Independent Component Analysis

Brain Research

Volumn 1101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-58

  Porcaro, Camillo ^a   Zappasodi, Filippo ^a,b   Barbati, Giulia ^a   Salustri, Carlo ^b   Pizzella, Vittorio ^c   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^a,d,e   Tecchio, Franca ^a,b  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal auditory responses; Fetal cerebral activity; Fetal magnetoencephalography (fMEG); Independent Component Analysis (ICA)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BREECH EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTHER; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATERNAL-FETAL RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; REACTION TIME; SOUND; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIBRATION;

EID: 33745965796     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.134     Document Type: Article

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