TY - JOUR AU - Ren, Yumiao AU - Zhang, Jianbao PY - 2019 DA - 2019/05/20 TI - Increased cardiorespiratory synchronization evoked by a breath controller based on heartbeat detection JO - BioMedical Engineering OnLine SP - 61 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - 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 study in experimental data which are very often inherently nonstationary and thus contain only quasiperiodic oscillations. So how to enhance cardiopulmonary synchronization and quantify cardiopulmonary synchronization, the changes in cardiac function under the conditions of cardiopulmonary synchronization, and the physiological mechanisms behind them are the main issues to be discussed in this paper. SN - 1475-925X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-019-0683-9 DO - 10.1186/s12938-019-0683-9 ID - Ren2019 ER -