The use of extremely low frequencies (ELF) in pulsed form (PELF) for therapeutic use: a pilot study

Author

Baldi, Emilio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Sci. Eng., Monash Univ., Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3981

Abstract

Following a previous Investigation on the therapeutic effects of Extremely Low Frequency in pulsed form - Pulsed Extremely Low Frequency (PELF) - this research explores the possibility of detecting the effects of PELF on the biological system by the use of the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis. It is concluded that there is no overall change in HRV in presence of very weak - less than 25 μT - PELF. However when the HRV is considered together with Heart Rate (HR) and Blood Pressure (BP) some interrelation can be detected.

Keywords

biomagnetism; cardiology; haemodynamics; radiation therapy; 25 muT; biological system; blood pressure; extremely low frequencies; heart rate variability analysis; magnetic field therapy; magnetotherapy; pulsed form; therapeutic use; Biological tissues; Electromagnetic fields; Geophysical measurement techniques; Ground penetrating radar; Heart rate; Heart rate detection; Heart rate variability; Humans; Pathology; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019716

Filename

1019716