Time domain analysis of the arterial pulse in clinical medicine

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-129

  O'Rourke, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT'S CLINIC   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterial haemodynamics; Augmentation index; Pressure pulse; Wave reflection; Waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES; ARTERIAL HAEMODYNAMICS; ARTERIAL PRESSURES; ARTERIAL PULSE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CLINICAL MEDICINES; DEPOLARISATION; DIASTOLIC PRESSURES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HEART RATES; IMPEDANCE MISMATCHES; LEFT VENTRICLES; LEFT VENTRICULAR; PRESSURE PULSE; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; PULSE WAVEFORMS; RATE OF PROPAGATION; TIME DOMAINS; VENTRICULAR EJECTIONS; WAVE REFLECTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AGING; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PULSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 60649112639     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0370-7     Document Type: Review

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