Research in the Division of Maternal-fetal Medicine

Scholarly Publications

Preissl H, Eswaran H, Murphy P, Lowery CL. The effect of fetal heart signals on fetal magnetoencephalogram recordings: A possible explanation for increased spectral power in case of intrauterine growth retarded pregnancies (Letter). Prenat Diagn July 2003, 23:599-600.

Lowery CL, Campbell JQ, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Preissl H, Eswaran H. Non-invasive antepartum recording of fetal S-T segment using a newly developed 151 channel magnetic sensor system. Am J of Ob/Gyn June 2003, 188(6):1491-7.

Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Robinson SE, Rose DF, Sharp GB, Vrba J, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Preissl H. Magnetoencephalographic recordings of spontaneous brain activity in the human fetus. Submitted to Am J of Ob/Gyn.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Preissl H , Robinson SE, Murphy P, Rose DF, Vrba J, Lowery CL Magnetoencephalographic recordings of visual evoked brain activity in the human fetus. The Lancet Sept 2002, 360(9335): 779-780.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Preissl H , Robinson SE, Murphy P , Rose DF, Vrba J, Lowery CL. Short-term serial magnetoencephalographic recordings of fetal auditory evoked responses. Neurosci. Lett Nov 2002, 331(2):128-32.

Eswaran H, Preissl H, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Lowery CL. First Magnetomyographic Recordings of the Uterine Activity with Spatial-Temporal Resolution Using a 151 Channel Sensor Array. Am. Journal of Obstet Gynecol , July 2002, 187(1): 145-151.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Preissl H, Lowery CL. Application of Wavelet Transform to Uterine Electromyographic Signals Recorded Using Abdominal Surface Electrodes. J of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, March 2002, 11(3):158-166.

Preißl H, Eswaran H, Murphy P, Wilson JD, Robinson SE , Vrba J , Fife AA , Tilotson M, Lowery CL. Recording of Temporal-Spatial Biomagnetic Signals over the whole Maternal Abdomen with SARA - Auditory Fetal Brain Responses. Journal Biomedizinische Technik, 2001:46(2) 2001

Preissl H, Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Robinson S, Vrba J, Murphy P, Lowery CL. Redefining fetal evoked fields with biomagnetic recordings over the whole maternal abdomen. Proceedings of 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology (ISBN 0-7803-7213-1) ed. IEEE 2001.

Bearden ED, Wilson JD, Zharov VP, Lowery CL. Deep Penetration of Light into Biotissue. Proceedings of SPIE, Laser-Tissue Interaction XII: Photochemical, Photothermal, and Photomechanical, In eds David D. Duncan, Steven L. Jacques, and Peter C. Johnson, July 2001,Vol 4257.

Eswaran H, Lowery CL, Robinson SE, Wilson JD. The challenges of recording Human Fetal Auditory Evoked Fields using Magnetoencephalography. J of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Sept-Oct 2000, 9(5):303-307.

Robinson SE, Burbank MB, Fife AA, Haid G, Kubik PR, Seachev I, Taylor B, Tillitoson, Vrba J, Wong G, Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Murphy P and Preissl H. A Biomagnetic Instrument for Human Reproductive Assessment. Biomag 2000, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference in Biomagnetism Ed: Nenonen et al, Helsinki Univ. of Tech., Espoo, Finland 2001 : 919-922.

Radhakrishnan N, Wilson JD, Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Murphy P. Testing of Non-linearity of Contraction segments in Uterine Electromyography. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. July 2000. 10(12);2785-90

Radhakrishnan N, Wilson JD, Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Murphy P. A fast algorithm to detect contractions in uterine electromyography. IEEE-Eng. in Medicine and Biology. March-April 2000, 19(2);89-94.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Sharp GB, Walls RC, Murphy P, Pennington S, Hawk RM, Lowery CL. Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials in the Human Fetus during labor. Am. Journal of Obstet Gynecol, June 1999;180(6):1422-26.

Eswaran H, Lowery CL, Cheyne D, Haid V, McKenzie D, Robinson S, Vrba J, Wilson J. Recording of Human Fetal Auditory Evoked Fields. Recent Advances in Biomagnetism, Ed: Takashi Yoshimito et al, Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan, Spring 1999 : 959-962.

Lowery CL, Robinson S, Eswaran H, Vrba J, Haid V, Cheung T. Detection of the transient & steady state auditory evoked responses in the human fetus. Recent Advances in Biomagnetism, Ed: Takashi Yoshimito et al, Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan, Spring 1999 : 963-966.

Hermonat PL, Han L, Wendel PJ, Quirk JG, Stern S, Lowery CL, Rechtin TM. Human papillomavirus is more prevalent in first trimester spontaneously aborted products of conception compared to elective specimens. Virus Genes 1997 14:1, 13-17.

Lowery CL, Russell WA, Wilson JD, Walls RC, Murphy P. Doppler movement detection as a potential screening tool for maternal sensitivity to fetal movement. J Matern Fetal Invest (Winter 1997) 7(1):7-11.

Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Russell WA, Wilson JD. Fetal neurological assessment using auditory evoked potentials. (Review paper) Prenat Neonat Med 1 (1996) 247-252.

Lowery CL, Russell WA, Wilson JD, Walls RC, Murphy P. Electronic fetal breathing movement detection using standard fetal heart rate Doppler transducers. Prenat Neonat Med 1 (1996) 241-246.

Lowery CL. Discussion of peer-reviewed article, The preterm prediction study: A clinical risk assessment system. (Authors: Mercer BM, Goldenberg RL, et al). Am J Obstet Gynecol 1996; 174:1885-95

Abstracts and Conference Presentations

Eswaran H, Preissl H, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Lowery CL. Prediction of Labor in Term and Preterm Pregnancies using Non-invasive Magnetomyographic Recordings of Uterine Contractions. Oral Presentation at the Annual Meeting of Central Association of OB/GYN, La Jolla, October 2003.

Campbell JQ, Wilson JD, Eswaran H, Preissl H, Murphy P, Lowery CL. Fetal Magnetocardiography: Serial recordings beginning in the first trimester. Poster Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of Society of Gynecologic Investigation, Washington DC, March 2003.

Lowery CL, Campbell JQ, Temple J, Bornemeier R, Best T, Collins B, Murphy P, Eswaran H. Magnetocardiographic measurement of fetal arrhythmias before and during in-utero treatment Poster Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of Society of Gynecologic Investigation, Washington DC, March 2003.

Campbell JQ, Wilson JD, Eswaran H, Preissl H, Murphy P, Lowery CL. Magnetocardiographic measurements of fetal heart rate complexity after sound stimuli . Poster Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of Society of Gynecologic Investigation, Washington DC, March 2003.

Eswaran H, Lowery CL, Wilson JD, Sharp GB, Rose DF, Murphy, Preissl H. On-Off Evoked Brain Responses to Sound Stimuli : A New Tool to Study Fetal Brain Development. Poster Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of Society of Gynecologic Investigation, Washington DC, March 2003.

Preissl H, Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Lowery CL. Co-registration of Anatomical and Physiological Information for Detection of Fetal Brain Responses. Poster Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of Society of Gynecologic Investigation, Washington DC, March 2003.

Lowery CL, Campbell JQ, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Preissl H, Eswaran H. Non-invasive antepartum recording of fetal S-T segment using a newly developed 151 channel magnetic sensor system. Oral Presentation at the Annual Meeting of Central Association of OB/GYN, Las Vegas, October 2002.

Lowery CL, Robinson SE, Vrba J, Rose DF, Preissl H, Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Murphy P. Observation of the Unaveraged Fetal MEG using SARA Instrument. Poster Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Jena, Germany, August 2002.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Preissl H , Robinson SE, Murphy P , Rose DF, Vrba J, Lowery CL. First report on the magnetoencephalographic recordings of visual evoked brain activity from the human fetus. Oral Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Jena, Germany, August 2002.

Preissl H, Robinson SE, Vrba J, Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Lowery CL. Co-registration of anatomical and physiological recordings for fMEG investigations in the SARA system. Oral Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Jena, Germany, August 2002.

Eswaran H, Preissl H , Wilson JD, Robinson SE, Murphy P , Rose DF, Vrba J, Lowery CL. Short-term serial magentoencephalographic recordings of fetal auditory evoked responses. Poster Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Jena, Germany , August 2002.

Vrba J, Robinson SE, McCubbin J, Lowery CL, Preissl H , Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Murphy P. Spatial Distribution of fMEG signals by projection operators. Poster Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Jena, Germany, August 2002.

Eswaran H, Preissl H, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Robinson SE, Lowery CL. Non-invasive recording of fetal auditory evoked responses using a newly developed 151 channel sensor array (SARA). Poster Presentation and Abstract in 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Jan-Feb 2002:9(1) Suppl.

Preissl H, Eswaran H, Murphy P, Wilson JD, Robinson SE , Vrba J, Lowery CL. Redefining fetal evoked fields with biomagnetic recordings over the whole abdomen. Accepted for presentation at 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.

Preissl H, Eswaran H, Murphy P, Wilson JD, Robinson SE , Vrba J , Fife AA , Tilotson M, Lowery CL. Temporal-Spatial Biomagnetic Signals over the whole Maternal Abdomen wall with SARA : First results related to auditory fetal brain responses. INVITED Oral Presentation at the 3rd International Symposium on Non-invasive Functional Source Imaging, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2001.

Preissl H, Eswaran H, Murphy P, Wilson JD, Robinson SE , Vrba J , Fife AA , Tilotson M, Lowery CL. Recording of Temporal-Spatial Biomagnetic Signals over the whole Maternal Abdomen with SARA - Auditory Fetal Brain Responses. Abstract and Poster presentation at the 7th Annual Human Brain Mapping Conference - Brighton, United Kingdom, June 2001.

Lowery CL, Preissl H, Eswaran H, Wilson J, Robinson S, Murphy P. Non-invasive recording of fetal auditory evoked responses using a new 151-channel sensor array (SARA). Poster presentation, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 21st Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, February 2001.

Lowery CL, Eswaran H, Preissl H, Wilson J, Robinson S, Murphy P. First magnetomyographic recordings of uterine activity with spatial-temporal information using a 151-channel sensor array (SARA). Poster presentation, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 21st Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, February 2001.

Robinson SE, Burbank MB, Fife AA, Vrba J, Lowery CL , Eswaran H , Wilson JD, Murphy P and Preissl H. A Biomagnetic Instrument for Human Reproductive Assessment; Abstract and Oral Presentation at the 12th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Helsinki, Finland, August 2000.

Eswaran H, Lowery CL, Wilson JD, Murphy P, Radhakrishnan N. Recording and Analyzing Uterine Contractions using Abdominal Electrodes; Abstract and poster presentation at Central Association of OB/GYN , 67th Annual Meeting, Maui Hawaii, October 1999.

Eswaran H, Lowery CL, Cheyne D, Haid V, McKenzie D, Robinson S, Vrba J, Wilson J. Recording of Human Fetal Auditory Evoked Fields. Abstract and poster presentation at the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism. Sendai, Japan, September 1998.

Lowery CL, Robinson S, Eswaran H, Vrba J, Haid V, Cheung T. Detection of the transient & steady state auditory evoked responses in the human fetus. Abstract and poster presentation at the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism. Sendai, Japan, September 1998.

Eswaran H, Wilson J, Lowery CL, Sharp G, Hawk R, Murphy P, Pennington S. Brainstem auditory evoked potentials in the human fetus during labor. Abstract and Oral presentation, Sixth International Conference on Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Measurement, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1997.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Hawk RM, Lowery CL. Fetal Auditory Long latency potentials recorded using Magnetoencephalography. Abstract and Oral presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Fetal and Neonatal Physiology of Measurements, Memphis, October 1997.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Hawk RM, Lowery CL. Recording of Auditory Evoked Potentials in the Human Fetus during labor. Abstract and Oral Presentation at the Arkansas Academy of Science, Monticello, April 1997.

Eswaran H, Wilson JD, Walls RC, Murphy P, Pennington S, Lowery CL. Intrapartum Recording of Auditory Evoked Potentials in the Human Fetus. Abstract in J of the Soc for Gynecol Investigation, Jan-Feb 1997:4(1) Suppl.:257A.