• DocumentCode
    2570351
  • Title

    Can the blood content of the tissues be determined optically during pulse oximetry without knowledge of the oxygen saturation? -an in-vitro investigation

  • Author

    Edrich, Thomas ; Knitza, Reinhold ; Rall, Gerhard

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Hosp. Grosshadern, Munich, Germany
  • Volume
    6
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    29 Oct-1 Nov 1998
  • Firstpage
    3072
  • Abstract
    Current pulse oximeters become unreliable at low oxygen saturations because the influence of physiological artifacts that are not measured independently such as the blood content of the tissues increases considerably. The authors demonstrate that the blood content of simulated tissues in an in-vitro model may be determined and monitored continuously during pulse oximetry by considering the absolute absorption of red and infrared light
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; blood; light absorption; oximetry; patient monitoring; O2; in-vitro investigation; infrared light absolute absorption; noninvasive optical method; physiological artifacts; pulse oximetry; red light absolute absorption; tissue blood content optical determination;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • ISSN
    1094-687X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5164-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1998.746140
  • Filename
    746140