The influence of indirect Doppler ultrasound method on fetal heart rate variability measurement

Author

Wróbel, Janusz ; Jezewski, Janusz ; Gacek, Adam ; Horoba, Krzysztof

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Inf., Inst. of Med. Technol. & Equip., Zabrze, Poland

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Fetal heart rate (FHR) signal can be obtained directly from the scalp electrode or indirectly via a Doppler ultrasound transducer. In the first method, we measure a distance between successive R peaks in fetal electrocardiogram. In the noninvasive and more popular indirect method, the Doppler effect is used, which occurs at reflection of ultrasound wave from moving parts of fetal heart; therefore, mechanical signal of heart activity is obtained. Short-term (STV) and long-term (LTV) variability indices are used to express FHR variability. The LabView based application for simultaneous acquisition of direct and indirect FHR signals has been developed to assess the influence of Doppler method errors on indices values. The result was that the LTV indices showed no statistically significant differences, whereas STV indices of Doppler derived FHR were significantly greater than measured directly

Keywords

Doppler measurement; acoustic correlation; echocardiography; measurement errors; medical signal processing; obstetrics; Doppler method errors; Doppler ultrasound transducer; LabView based application; R-R intervals; foetal HRV measurement; indirect Doppler ultrasound method; long-term variability indices; measurement error; short-term variability indices; simultaneous direct/indirect signal acquisition; Biomedical informatics; Biomedical measurements; Biomedical transducers; Computerized monitoring; Electrocardiography; Fetal heart rate; Instruments; Scalp; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804209

Filename

804209