Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 1119-1131 , December 2007

Systematic performance evaluation of a continuous-scale sleep depth measure

  • Antti Saastamoinen

      Affiliations

    • Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Medical Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, P.O. Box 2000, FIN-33521 Tampere, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Medical Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Teiskontie 35, FIN-33520 Tampere, Finland. Tel.: +358 3 3116 5095; fax: +358 3 3116 4352.
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  • Eero Huupponen

      Affiliations

    • Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Signal Processing, P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
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  • Alpo Värri

      Affiliations

    • Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Signal Processing, P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
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  • Joel Hasan

      Affiliations

    • Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Medical Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, P.O. Box 2000, FIN-33521 Tampere, Finland
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  • Sari-Leena Himanen

      Affiliations

    • Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Medical Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, P.O. Box 2000, FIN-33521 Tampere, Finland

Received 29 November 2005 ,Revised 9 November 2006 ,Accepted 10 November 2006.

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PII: S1350-4533(06)00231-1

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.11.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 1119-1131 , December 2007

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