Title :
Modeling fetal--maternal heart-rate interaction
Author :
Van Leeuwen, Peter ; Geue, Daniel ; Lange, Silke ; Grönemeyer, Dietrich H w
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomagnetism, Univ. Witten/Herdecke, Bochum, Germany
Abstract :
The aim of this work was to examine the factors that might be involved in producing the epochs of coordination between fetal and maternal heart rate by comparing the occurrence of such coordination under conditions of spontaneous and controlled maternal breathing with the occurrence of coordinated epochs produced by a simple model of the experimental conditions.
Keywords :
cardiology; circadian rhythms; digital simulation; magnetocardiography; medical computing; pneumodynamics; coordination epochs; fetal heart rate; heart rate interaction; maternal breathing; maternal heart rate; Data analysis; Fetal heart rate; Fetus; Frequency synchronization; Hafnium; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Oscillators; Pregnancy; Rhythm; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Computer Simulation; Female; Heart Rate; Heart Rate, Fetal; Humans; Models, Cardiovascular; Pregnancy; Respiration; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Statistics, Nonparametric;
Journal_Title :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MEMB.2009.934625
