Evaluation of the EEG-signal during volatile anaesthesia: Methodological approach

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-28

  Olejarczyk, Elzbieta ^a   Sobieszek, Aleksander ^b   Rudner, Robert ^c   Marciniak, RadosŁaw ^c   Wartak, Magdalena ^c   Stasiowski, Michał ^c   Jałowiecki, Przemyslaw ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

EEG patterns; Higuchi's fractal dimension; Mean phase coherence; Time frequency distributions; Volatile anaesthetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450253229     PISSN: 02085216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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