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DY: Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 46: Poster
DY 46.51: Poster
Thursday, March 27, 2003, 15:30–18:00, P1
ECG curve versus heart rate variability analysis applied to normal and heart-failure patients — •R. Bartsch1, A. Heinen1, St. Heinrichs1, Th. Hennig2, D. Jäger3, and P. Maass2,1 — 1Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz — 2Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau — 3Medizinische Klinik II – Kardiologie, Städtisches Krankenhaus Friedrichshafen, 88048 Friedrichshafen
Multiresolution wavelet analysis applied to heartbeat intervals
has been shown to be a potential clinical tool to discriminate
healthy patients from those with a cardiac pathology [1].
In our work we discuss an alternative way of analysis by deliberately
removing the heart rate variability and by studying measures for the
similarity of electrocardiogramm (ECG) segments (R-R intervals).
We furthermore investigate the robustness of the results with respect
to wake and sleep periods.
[1] St. Thurner, M.C. Feurstein, M.C. Teich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1544 (1998)