Increased cardiorespiratory synchronization evoked by a breath controller based on heartbeat detection

Abstract Background The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are functionally related to each other, but the underlying physiologic mechanism of cardiorespiratory coupling (CRC) is unclear. Cardiopulmonary phase synchronization is a form of cardiorespiratory coupling. However, it is difficult to s...

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Main Authors: Yumiao Ren, Jianbao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BioMedical Engineering OnLine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12938-019-0683-9