Heart rate variability in the fetus: A comparison of measures

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-65

  Van Leeuwen, Peter ^a,b   Lange, Silke ^a   Geue, Daniel ^a   Grönemeyer, Dietrich ^b  

^a Gronemeyer Institute of Microtherapy   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Complexity; Correlation analysis; Fetal magnetocardiography; Frequency domain; Time domain

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATE ENTROPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FETAL MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY;

FETAL MONITORING;

ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RR INTERVAL; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247183110     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2007.012     Document Type: Article

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