Heart rate variability: Measures and models

Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing: Dynamic Analysis and Modeling

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 159-213

  Teich, Malvin C ^a   Lawen, Steven B ^b,c   Jost, Bradley M ^b,d   Vibe Theymer, Karin ^a   Heneghan, Conor ^e  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Fractals; Heart beat; Heart rate variability; Histograms; Particle measurements; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FRACTALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

HEART BEATS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HISTOGRAMS; PARTICLE MEASUREMENT;

HEART;

EID: 85016060287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1109/9780470545379.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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