• DocumentCode
    1218896
  • Title

    A Simulation Study of Intracranial Pressure Increment Using an Electrical Circuit Model of Cerebral Circulation

  • Author

    Takemae, Tadashi ; Kosugi, Yukio ; Ikebe, Jun ; Kumagai, Yoriyoshi ; Matsuyama, Kiyoshi ; Saito, Haruo

  • Author_Institution
    Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1987
  • Firstpage
    958
  • Lastpage
    962
  • Abstract
    An electrical circuit model of the cerebral circulation is presented. Changes of pulsatile waves of the intracranial pressure (ICP) and the cerebral blood volume (CBV) with ICP increment were investigated by simulation of the cerebral blood flow using this model. The simulation is performed by a small signal approximation using the pulsatile component. The results obtained are able to explain the phenomenon of changes in pulsatile wave of ICP with ICP increment. With regard to the CBV, the modeling results are useful for application to rheoencephalography (REG) using electrical impedance method for noninvasive ICP monitoring.
  • Keywords
    Arteries; Blood flow; Circuit simulation; Cranial pressure; Electric resistance; Immune system; Impedance measurement; Monitoring; Space technology; Veins; Biomedical Engineering; Cerebrovascular Circulation; Electricity; Humans; Intracranial Pressure; Models, Biological;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1987.325935
  • Filename
    4122481