Antepartum non-invasive evaluation of opening and closing timings of the cardiac valves in fetal cardiac cycle

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1075-1082

  Khandoker, Ahsan H ^a   Kimura, Yoshitaka ^b   Ito, Takuya ^b   Sato, Naoaki ^c   Okamura, Kunihiro ^b   Palaniswami, Marimuthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Fetal cardiac function; Fetal electrocardiogram; Fetal monitoring; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

AORTIC VALVES; CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIAC VALVES; DOPPLER SIGNALS; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SIGNALS; FETAL CARDIAC FUNCTION; FETAL ECG; FETAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; MITRAL VALVES; MULTIRESOLUTION WAVELET ANALYSIS; NON-INVASIVE; QRS COMPLEXES; TIME INTERVAL; WAVELET;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD VESSELS; FETAL MONITORING; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ULTRASONICS;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

ALGORITHM; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MITRAL VALVE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 70350304548     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0528-y     Document Type: Article

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