Noninvasive estimation of the electrohysterographic action-potential conduction velocity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2178-2187

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

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MÁXIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action potentials (APs); conduction velocity (CV); electrohysterography (EHG); electromyography; high density electrodes; maximum likelihood (ML) estimation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; ELECTROHYSTEROGRAPHY (EHG); HIGH DENSITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATION;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESTIMATION; MONITORING; VELOCITY;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROGRAPHY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 77955857689     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2049111     Document Type: Article

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