Cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory coupling analyses: A review

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1997, 2013, Pages

  Schulz, Steffen ^a   Adochiei, Felix Constantin ^b   Edu, Ioana Raluca ^c   Schroeder, Rico ^a   Costin, Hariton ^d   Bär, Karl Jürgen ^e   Voss, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^b GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^d GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^e JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiorespiratory system; Cardiovascular system; Causality; Coupling; Direct coupling; Nonlinear

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; TIME SERIES;

CARDIO-RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; CAUSALITY; DIRECT COUPLING; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; NON-LINEAR PREDICTIONS; NONLINEAR; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

COUPLINGS;

AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BREATHING RATE; CARDIORESPIRATORY SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; DIRECT COUPLING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; NONLINEAR; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CARDIORESPIRATORY SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAUSALITY; COUPLING; DIRECT COUPLING; NONLINEAR;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESPIRATORY RATE;

EID: 84880539601     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0191     Document Type: Review

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