Fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG): Moving forward in the establishment of clinical reference data by advanced biomagnetic instrumentation and analysis

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 277-286

  Kiefer Schmidt, Isabelle ^a,b   Lim, Minha ^a,b   Wacker Gußmann, Annette ^a,b   Ortiz, Eric ^b   Abele, Harald ^a   Kagan, Karl Oliver ^a   Kaulitz, Renate ^a   Wallwiener, Diethlem ^a   Preissl, Hubert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Biosignal processing; fetal cardiac time intervals (fCTIs); fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84861502793     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm.2011.139     Document Type: Article

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