Dependency of magnetocardiographically determined fetal cardiac time intervals on gestational age,gender and postnatal biometrics in healthy pregnancies
1.Department of Biomagnetism,Research and Development Center for Microtherapy (EFMT),Bochum,Germany;2.Gr?nemeyer Institute for Microtherapy,University of Witten/Herdecke,Bochum,Germany
Abstract:
Background
Magnetocardiography enables the precise determination of fetal cardiac time intervals (CTI) as early as the second trimester of pregnancy. It has been shown that fetal CTI change in course of gestation. The aim of this work was to investigate the dependency of fetal CTI on gestational age, gender and postnatal biometric data in a substantial sample of subjects during normal pregnancy.