Wavelet phase coherence analysis: Application to skin temperature and blood flow

Cardiovascular Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-93

  Bandrivskyy, Andriy ^a   Bernjak, Alan ^b   McClintock, Peter ^a   Stefanovska, Aneta ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Oscillations; Phase coherence; Skin temperature regulation; Time series analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OSCILLATION; SENSOR; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 4344690961     PISSN: 15678822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CARE.0000025126.63253.43     Document Type: Article

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