Time-Frequency Analysis of Heart Rate Variability: Smoothed Pseudo-Wigner Distribution

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 411-418

  Birand, Ahmet ^a   Saliu, Sokol ^b   Kudaiberdieva, Gulmira Z ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Dept of Elec and Electronics Eng   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac autonomic function; Fast Fourier transform analysis; Heart rate variability; Smoothed pseudo Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004803841     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.1996.tb00298.x     Document Type: Article

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