MUSIC AND SOUND ASSISTED PRENATAL SONOGRAPHY HELPING APPARATUS

摘要

A novel apparatus and a non invasive method by stimulating the fetus for the neurobehavioral assessment / well being of the fetus in 4D antenatal scan, in which individually customized and edited auditory stimuli of specific combinations are used to elicit a fetal response enabling a sonographic study. The main components of the apparatus are a fetal music and sound stimulator that serves as the stimuli generator/ source, speakers to impart the acoustic stimuli when fixed to the mother"s abdomen, also has a microphone to add mothers /strangers voice. An electronic stethoscope for adding the mothers heart sounds, bowel sounds and finally Vibro Acoustic Stimulator (VAS) to use in case of failure to elicit a desired effect with the customized stimuli. Specific and edited combinations of these individual auditory stimuli in the new invent can also be used to alter the fetal behavioral state during a study with near zero risk and thereby making this apparatus one of its kind in diagnostic radiology.