Journal of Electrocardiology
Volume 43, Issue 1 , Pages 15-24 , January 2010

Beat-to-beat interplay of heart rate, ventricular depolarization, and repolarization

  • György Kozmann, DSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Pannonia, H-8201 P.O. Box 158, Veszprém, Hungary.
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  • Kristóf Haraszti, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    • IQSYS Computing, member of Hungarian Telekom Group, Budapest, Hungary
    • ,
  • István Préda, MD, DSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, State Health Center, Budapest, Hungary
    • Cardiovascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Received 23 September 2008

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PII: S0022-0736(09)00374-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2009.08.003

Journal of Electrocardiology
Volume 43, Issue 1 , Pages 15-24 , January 2010

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