Bioengineering assessment of acupuncture, Part 7: Heart rate variability

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 183-195

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Biomedical engineering; Heart rate variability; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MEDICINE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BRAINSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR CENTERS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE;

ACUPUNCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 37249021862     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v35.i3-4.10     Document Type: Article

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