Acquisition of fetal magnetocardiograms in an unshielded hospital setting

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 823-826

  Brazdeikis, A ^a   Vazquez Flores G J ^a   Tan, I C ^a   Padhye, N S ^b   Verklan, M T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomagnetic modeling; Biomagnetic signal detection; Fetal magnetocardiography; SQUID magnetometers; Unshielded environment

Indexed keywords

BIOMAGNETISM; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SQUIDS;

BIOMAGNETIC MODELING; BIOMAGNETIC SIGNAL DETECTION; FETAL MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAMS; UNSHIELDED ENVIRONMENT;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 34547420244     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.897308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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