Age-Related Changes in Specific Harmonic Indices of Pressure Pulse Waveform

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 23, Issue , 2009, Pages 183-185

  Wang, Sheng Hung ^a   Hsu, Tse Lin ^b   Jan, Ming Yie ^b   Wang, Yuh Ying Lin ^c   Wang, Wei Kung ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ageing; Augmentation Index; Biosignal Processing; Blood Pressure Pulse Waveform; Harmonic Analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED CHANGES; AGEING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BIO-SIGNAL PROCESSING; PERIPHERAL ARTERIES; PRESSURE PULSE; PULSE-WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84891911848     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92841-6_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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