New analysis techniques and waveform displaying for intracranial pressure data

This paper describes a new data analysis technique for the computation of important brain parameters from intracranial pressure (ICP) data. In contrast to conventional methods, our method does not need the additional infusion of liquor into the brain. Our new technique is able to achieve the requested parameters only from natural fluctuations within the intracranial pressure signal. The advantage of our method is the minimisation of the risk for the patient. Furthermore, the proposed technique is much more comfortable for patients than the conventional methods. For the data acquisition a portable telemetric measurement unit will be used. Plausible Results from real data show that our method is highly efficient. Due to its simplicity our method is suitable for on-line monitoring applications. This new measuring system could also be implemented in other fields where telemetric sensors are needed and biological signals up to the 50 Hz-range are measured