Increase in regularity of fetal heart rate variability with age

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 244-247

  Van Leeuwen, Peter ^a   Cysarz, Dirk ^a   Lange, Silke ^a   Grönemeyer, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Prenatal development; Symbolic dynamics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CARDIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY;

APPROXIMATE ENTROPY; FETAL HEART RATE VARIABILITY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS;

FETAL MONITORING;

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENTROPY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 34047096641     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2006.047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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