Due to the difficult identification of the Aortic valve Opening (AO), Pulse Transit Time (PTT) is often surrogated by the Pulse Arrival Time (PAT) in which AO is approximated by the R peak in the ECG signal. This procedure introduces a fraction of the Pre Ejection Period variability into the PAT dynamics and makes the PAT variability partially different from the PTT variability.
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