Evaluation of the Autonomic Nervous System: From Algorithms to Clinical Practice

Advanced Methods of Biomedical Signal Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 83-97

  La Rovere, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATRAMI; Heart rate variability (HRV); Multicenter post infarction project (MPIP); Nervous system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887162433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118007747.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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