A non-invasive fiber optic sensor for fetal heart rate monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3211, Issue , 1998, Pages 496-501

  Albin, Sacharia ^a   Zheng, Jianli ^a   Lavarias, Arnel C ^a   Zahorian, Stephen A ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; FETAL MONITORING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIGHT; NEONATAL MONITORING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTONICS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC SENSORS; CLINICAL RESEARCHES; COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; ELASTIC MEMBRANES; ELECTRICAL NOISES; EXTERNAL-; FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS; FETAL HEART RATES; FILTERING TECHNIQUES; LONG TERMS; PEAK PRESSURES; SENSOR OUTPUTS; ULTRASOUND DEVICES;

SENSORS;

EID: 57649084060     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.345568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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