Indices of fetal development derived from heart rate patterns

Early Human Development

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 379-386

  Hoyer, Dirk ^a   Heinicke, Esther ^a,b   Jaekel, Susann ^a,b   Tetschke, Florian ^a,b   Di Pietro Paolo, Dania ^d   Haueisen, Jens ^a,c   Schleußner, Ekkehard ^b   Schneider, Uwe ^b  

^a University Hospital   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Systeme GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic information flow; Autonomic nervous system; Fetal development; Heart rate accelerations; Heart rate variability; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN;

FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS;

EID: 67349120683     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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