Evaluation of brain maturation in pre-term infants using conventional and amplitude-integrated electroencephalograms

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1967-1972

  Kato, Toru ^a   Okumura, Akihisa ^b   Hayakawa, Fumio ^a   Tsuji, Takeshi ^a   Natsume, Jun ^c   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^d  

^a Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude integrated EEG; Brain maturation; Conventional EEG; Pre term infants

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE INTEGRATED ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NEUROMONITORING; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE;

EID: 80052423834     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.12.063     Document Type: Article

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