Physiological time series: Distinguishing fractal noises from motions

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 439, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 403-415

  Eke, A ^a   Herman P ^a   Bassingthwaighte, J B ^b   Raymond, G M ^b   Percival, D B ^c   Cannon, M ^b   Balla, I ^a   Ikrenyi C ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain microcirculation; Correlation; Fractal dimension; Fractals; Hurst coefficient Laser Doppler flowmetry; Temporal heterogeneity; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY; TIME; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEMORY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOTION; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0033958878     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050957     Document Type: Article

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