Poincaré plot methods for heart rate variability analysis

Poincaré Plot Methods for Heart Rate Variability Analysis

Volumn 9781461473756, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-146

  Khandoker, Ahsan Habib ^a,b   Karmakar, Chandan ^b   Brennan, Michael ^b   Voss, Andreas ^c   Palaniswami, Marimuthu ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7375-6     Document Type: Book

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