PR and PP ECG intervals as indicators of autonomic nervous innervation of the cardiac sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes

International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 261-264

  Shouldice, R ^a   Heneghan, C ^a   Nolan, P ^a   Nolan, P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Blood pressure; Data analysis; Educational institutions; Electrocardiography; Heart; Hospitals; Human anatomy; Physiology; Protocols

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL STORAGE; HEART; HOSPITALS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPONENT BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; HUMAN ANATOMY; INTERSUBJECT VARIATION; PARAMETRIC SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 57349195918     PISSN: 19483546     EISSN: 19483554     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2003.1196808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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