A novel approach to track fetal movement using multi-sensor magnetocardiographic recordings

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 964-972

  Govindan, R B ^a   Vairavan, S ^b   Ulusar, U D ^b   Wilson, J D ^b   McKelvey, S S ^a   Preissl, H ^a,c   Eswaran, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Center of gravity; Fetal body movement; Fetal magenetocardiogram; Hilbert transform; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

BODY MOVEMENTS; CENTER OF GRAVITY; FETAL MAGENETOCARDIOGRAM; FETAL WELL-BEINGS; HILBERT TRANSFORM; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHIC; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PREDICTIVE VALUES;

GRAVITATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; FETAL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951553519     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-0231-z     Document Type: Article

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