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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 19.
Published in final edited form as: Neurocrit Care. 2014 Jun;20(3):382–389. doi: 10.1007/s12028-014-9966-y

Table 1. Heart Rate Variability Measurements.

Measurement Unit Definition
Very Low Frequency (VLF) ms2 Power in VLF (≤0.04 Hz) range
Normalized Low Frequency (nLF) nu LF (0.04-0.15 Hz) Power in normalized units (LF/(total power – VLF) × 100
Normalized High Frequency (nHF) nu HF (0.15-0.4 Hz) Power in normalized units (HF/(total power – VLF) × 100
LF/HF Ratio Ratio LF [ms2]/HF[ms2]
RMSSD ms The square root of the mean of the sum of the squares of differences between adjacent RR intervals
Standard Deviation RRIDX ms Mean of the standard deviations of all RR intervals for all 5-minute segments of the recording period
Sample Entropy Measure of time series complexity that is small for low variability and large for high variability sequences
1 / f Slope of the linear interpolation of the spectrum in a log-log scale (≈≤0.04 Hz)