1. Magnetic monitoring of fetal heart activity
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Minghong Wang, Chester B. Martin, Deborah L. Reid, B. Forbes, Stephen L. Pedron, and Ronald T. Wakai
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Fetus ,business.industry ,Internal medicine ,Heart rate ,Cardiology ,Medicine ,Gestation ,Fetal heart ,business ,Ultrasonic imaging - Abstract
We have measured fetal magneto-cardiograms in three subjects of gestation ages 33–37 weeks. Maternal interference was negligible in all recordings. Accurate measures of heart rate, beat-to-beat variability, and averaged MCG waveforms were derived. The results confirm that magnetic monitoring offers significant advantages for antepartum monitoring and deserves further investigation.
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- 1992
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