The cardiovascular system as coupled oscillators?

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, , Citation Aneta Stefanovska et al 2001 Physiol. Meas. 22 535 DOI 10.1088/0967-3334/22/3/311

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1 Group of Nonlinear Dynamics and Synergetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

3 Institute of Theoretical Physics and Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  1. Received 19 March 2001

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Abstract

Based on physiological knowledge, and on an analysis of signals related to its dynamics, we propose a model of the cardiovascular system. It consists of coupled oscillators. Each of them describes one of the subsystems involved in the regulation of one passage of blood through the circulatory system. The flow of blood through the system of closed tubes—the blood vessels—is described by wave equations.

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