Nonlinear cardio-respiratory interactions revealed by time-phase bispectral analysis.

Jamsek, Janez and Stefanovska, Aneta and McClintock, Peter V. E. (2004) Nonlinear cardio-respiratory interactions revealed by time-phase bispectral analysis. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 49 (18). pp. 4407-4425. ISSN 1361-6560

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Abstract

Bispectral analysis based on high order statistics, introduced recently as a technique for revealing time-phase relationships among interacting noisy oscillators, has been used to study the nature of the coupling between cardiac and respiratory activity. Univariate blood flow signals recorded simultaneously by laser-Doppler flowmetry on both legs and arms were analysed. Coupling between cardiac and respiratory activity was also checked by use of bivariate data and computation of the cross-bispectrum between the ECG and respiratory signals. Measurements were made on six healthy males aged 25–27 years. Recordings were taken during spontaneous breathing (20 min), and during paced respiration at frequencies both lower and higher than that of spontaneous respiration (either two or three recordings with a constant frequency in the interval between 0.09 and 0.35 Hz). At each paced frequency recordings were taken for 12 min. It was confirmed that the dynamics of blood flow can usefully be considered in terms of coupled oscillators, and demonstrated that interactions between the cardiac and respiratory processes are weak and time-varying, and that they can be nonlinear. Nonlinear coupling was revealed to exist during both spontaneous and paced respiration. When present, it was detected in all four blood flow signals and in the cross-bispectrum between the ECG and respiratory signal. The episodes with nonlinear coupling were detected in 11 out of 22 recordings and lasted between 19 s in the case of high frequency (0.34 Hz) and 106 s in the case of low frequency paced respiration (0.11 Hz).

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physics in Medicine and Biology
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? radiology nuclear medicine and imagingradiological and ultrasound technologyqc physics ??
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23878
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Deposited On:
23 Feb 2009 09:10
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Yes
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