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Recently, noninvasive methods using 2D real-time and continuous-wave or pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound have been used to record blood flow velocity waveforms in the human fetus. In 1977 Fitzgerald and Drumm reported on the measurement of blood flow velocity in the umbilical cord by means of continuous-wave Doppler ultrasound. McCallum et al. (1978) recorded blood flow velocity waveforms from the umbilical artery. Measurements on blood flow in the fetal descending aorta and umbilical vein using Doppler ultrasound were first described by Gill and Kossoff (1979) and by Eik-Nes et al. (1980a).
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Wladimiroff, J.W., Tonge, H.M., Struijk, P.C. (1985). Blood Flow Measurements in the Human Fetus. In: Künzel, W. (eds) Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70358-4_24
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