Does fractality in heart rate variability indicate the development of fetal neural processes?

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 331, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 225-230

  Echeverria J C ^a,b   Woolfson, M S ^a   Crowe, J A ^a   Hayes Gill, B R ^a   Piéri, Jean F ^a   Spencer, C J ^a   James, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

1 f; Fetal development; Heart rate variability; Improved detrended fluctuation analysis; Long range correlations; filter

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; LONG-TERM SERIES; NEURAL PROCESS; SCALING BEHAVIOURS;

HEART;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY;

EID: 3142597861     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.08.050     Document Type: Article

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