Title :
Catheter Smearing Correction Using Inverse Filtering Techniques
Author :
Branston, Neil M. ; Read, Randol R.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Tex. 77001.
fDate :
7/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The application of digital filtering techniques to correct for the instrumental error, known as ``smearing,´´ which occurs when a long catheter of narrow bore is used to sample the concentration of an indicator substance dissolved in blood, is described.
Keywords :
Blood flow; Boring; Catheters; Digital filters; Equations; Error correction; Filtering; Instruments; Isotopes; Monitoring; Blood Circulation Time; Catheterization; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Filtration; Mathematics; Methods; Models, Biological; Monitoring, Physiologic; Regional Blood Flow;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1972.324071
