Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach

Ambulatory recorders have been widely used in the acquisition of adult electrocardiogram (ECG). Such an ambulatory system will also be beneficial for the recording of both the fetal and maternal ECG from the abdomen of pregnant women. This paper describes a device with the possibility of producin...

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Main Authors: Firoz Ahmed, Zahari Mohamed, Darus Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali
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Published: 1999
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spelling ukm-13552011-10-11T03:45:29Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1355/ Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach Firoz Ahmed, Zahari Mohamed, Darus Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, Ambulatory recorders have been widely used in the acquisition of adult electrocardiogram (ECG). Such an ambulatory system will also be beneficial for the recording of both the fetal and maternal ECG from the abdomen of pregnant women. This paper describes a device with the possibility of producing a fetal and maternal heart rate recorder system employing an ambulatory approach by using three electrodes for recording the abdominal signal. The signal is amplified and digitized by an amplifier and an analog to digital converter. The digitized signal is stored into static RAM (SRAM) and then downloaded to a personal computer (PC) through a serial interface circuit. Both the fetal and maternal heart rates can be measured from the downloaded signal. This paper also presents real data acquired by the constructed ambulatory recorder. The performance of the constructed recorder was found to be acceptable acquiring signal with system noise kept below 3mV peak to peak. Such signals are suitable for the measurement and analysis of both fetal and maternal heart rates 1999 Article PeerReviewed Firoz Ahmed, and Zahari Mohamed, and Darus Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali, (1999) Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach. Jurnal Kejuruteraan, 11 . http://www.ukm.my/jkukm/index.php/jkukm
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description Ambulatory recorders have been widely used in the acquisition of adult electrocardiogram (ECG). Such an ambulatory system will also be beneficial for the recording of both the fetal and maternal ECG from the abdomen of pregnant women. This paper describes a device with the possibility of producing a fetal and maternal heart rate recorder system employing an ambulatory approach by using three electrodes for recording the abdominal signal. The signal is amplified and digitized by an amplifier and an analog to digital converter. The digitized signal is stored into static RAM (SRAM) and then downloaded to a personal computer (PC) through a serial interface circuit. Both the fetal and maternal heart rates can be measured from the downloaded signal. This paper also presents real data acquired by the constructed ambulatory recorder. The performance of the constructed recorder was found to be acceptable acquiring signal with system noise kept below 3mV peak to peak. Such signals are suitable for the measurement and analysis of both fetal and maternal heart rates
format Article
author Firoz Ahmed,
Zahari Mohamed,
Darus Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali,
spellingShingle Firoz Ahmed,
Zahari Mohamed,
Darus Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali,
Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
author_facet Firoz Ahmed,
Zahari Mohamed,
Darus Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali,
author_sort Firoz Ahmed,
title Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
title_short Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
title_full Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
title_fullStr Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
title_full_unstemmed Development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
title_sort development of a long-term fetal heart rate recorder using an ambulatory approach
publishDate 1999
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1355/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1355/
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