| Literature DB >> 24109653 |
Mozziyar Etemadi, Philip Chung, J Alex Heller, Jonathan Liu, Rebecca Grossman-Kahn, Larry Rand, Shuvo Roy.
Abstract
Preterm birth is the leading cause of worldwide neonatal mortality. It follows a pathologically accelerated form of the normal processes that govern cervical softening and dilation. Softening and dilation occur due to changes in cervical collagen crosslinking, which can be measured non-invasively by changes in tissue fluorescence and impedance. We present a novel device designed specifically to take fluorescence and impedance measurements throughout pregnancy, with the end goal of fusing and trending these measurements to form an early diagnosis of preterm labor.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24109653 PMCID： PMC4606960 DOI： 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609466
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc ISSN： 1557-170X