Fractal dimension of mean arterial pressure and heart-rate time series from ambulatory blood pressure monitoring devices

Computing in Cardiology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2011, Pages 593-596

  Castiglioni, Paolo ^a   Di Rienzo, Marco ^a   Parati, Gianfranco ^b   Faini, Andrea ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICORRELATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING DEVICE; BLOOD-PRESSURE MONITORING; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; HEART RATES; HEART-RATE; INTRINSIC STRUCTURES; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; SHORT SEGMENTS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84859970646     PISSN: 23258861     EISSN: 2325887X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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