Effect of high-pass filtering on ECG signal on the analysis of patients prone to atrial fibrillation

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 427-431

  Censi, Federica ^a   Calcagnini, Giovanni ^a   Triventi, Michele ^a   Mattei, Eugenio ^a   Bartolini, Pietro ^a   Corazza, Ivan ^b   Boriani, Giuseppe ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Digital signal processing; Electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849100633     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0021-25712009000400012     Document Type: Article

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