Human fetuses have nonlinear cardiac dynamics

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 530-537

  Groome, Lynn J ^a   Mooney, Donna M ^b   Holland, Scherri B ^a   Smith, Lisa A ^a   Atterbury, Jana L ^a   Loizou, Philip C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

EID: 0032838211     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.87.2.530     Document Type: Article

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