The fetal ECG throughout the second half of gestation
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement
- Vol. 10 (2) , 147-160
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0815/10/2/004
Abstract
The results of a study in which multi-lead simultaneous recordings of the abdominal fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) have been made are presented. A homogeneous volume conduction model based on the actual recorded geometry was made. Using this model, fetal vectorcardiograms (FVCGs) were computed. Before 28 weeks of gestation the inter- and intra-individual variability of the observed signals could be removed by computing FVCGs in a fetal reference frame. This opens up the possibility of using the shape of the QRS complex for diagnostic purposes.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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