We show that force plate measurements provide a noninvasive method to display the motion of the heart muscle and the subsequent propagation of the pulse wave along aorta and its branches. The aim of this paper is to present a new method to handle multivariate time series obtained by force plate measurements. The proposed technique is subsequently used to display marks of cardiac activity.
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