Transabdominal Fetal Heart Rate Detection Using NIR Photopleythysmography: Instrumentation and Clinical Results

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2075-2082

  Gan, Kok Beng ^a   Zahedi, Edmond ^b   Mohd Ali, Mohd Alauddin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adaptive filter; fetal heart rate (FHR); photoplesthysmography (PPG); transabdominal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LABOR PRESENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70349569585     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2021578     Document Type: Article

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