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Fractals are Anywhere!

Motohisa Osaka

Department of Life Information Sciences, Institute of Gerontology, Nippon Medical School

Nowadays various fields, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and economics, have been linked under the regime of nonlinear dynamics. Medicine is no exception. One of the hottest topics in circulatory medicine is to discover a marker that indicates cardiac sudden death. Fractal is a noted concept of nonlinear dynamics and may be a marker. It means self-similarity. Although a phenomenon that has a fractal nature looks complicated, its origin is a simple universal law.

J Nippon Med Sch 2007; 74: 330-331

Correspondence to
Motohisa Osaka, Department of Life Information Sciences, Institute of Gerontology, Nippon Medical School, 1-396 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-0063, Japan
osaka@nms.ac.jp