A simple soft limiter describing function for biomedical applications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1233-1240

  De Paor, Annraoi ^a,b   Ringwood, John ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Ireland)

^b National University of Ireland at Dublin   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Describing function; Limit cycle

Indexed keywords

ARCTANGENT FUNCTION; BAROREFLEX; DESCRIBING FUNCTION (DF); LIMIT CYCLE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OSCILLATION; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BAROREFLEX; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN;

EID: 33746788618     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.873681     Document Type: Article

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