Modeling and identification of the electrohysterographic volume conductor by high-density electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 519-527

  Rabotti, Chiara ^a   Mischi, Massimo ^a   Beulen, Lean ^b   Oei, Guid ^b   Bergmans, Jan W M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MÁXIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action potential; Electrohysterography; Highdensity (HD) electrodes; Parameter estimation; Smooth muscle; Subcutaneous tissue thickness; Volume conductor

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROHYSTEROGRAPHY; HIGH-DENSITY; HIGHDENSITY (HD) ELECTRODES; SMOOTH MUSCLES; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE THICKNESS; VOLUME CONDUCTORS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CONDUCTOR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENSITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROHYSTEROGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYSTEROGRAPHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THICKNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 77649142572     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2035440     Document Type: Article

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