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Recommended Standards for Fetal Magnetocardiography
Author(s) -
GRIMM BARBARA,
HAUEISEN JENS,
HUOTILAINEN MINNA,
LANGE SILKE,
LEEUWEN PETER VAN,
MENENDEZ TERESA,
PETERS MARIA J.,
SCHLEUSSNER EKKEHARD,
SCHNEIDER UWE
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00330.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pooling , magnetocardiography , protocol (science) , fetal heart , cardiac electrophysiology , pregnancy , medical physics , fetus , cardiology , pathology , alternative medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science , electrophysiology , biology , genetics
Fetal magnetocardiography (FMCG) is increasingly being used in research and diagnostics of fetal heart function. Currently, FMCG is the only noninvasive procedure available, comparable to postnatal ECG, which can be used to assess cardiac electrophysiology during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. For a reliable evaluation and full clinical acceptance of this new technique, large numbers of patient investigations are required which can only be obtained in multicenter studies. An international standard protocol is needed to allow pooling of sufficient data and to permit the comparison of studies performed in different centers. This article provides recommended standards for FMCG in the fields of data acquisition and data analysis. (PACE 2003; 26:2121–2126)