Preterm labor - Modeling the uterine electrical activity from cellular level to surface recording

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3726-3729

  Rihana, S ^a   Marque, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

CELLULAR LEVELS; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION; PRETERM LABOR; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SURFACE RECORDINGS; TISSUE LEVELS; UTERINE CONTRACTIONS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURAL CONDUCTION; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 61849172457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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