Title :
BioPhony: an open system to measure the airway area by acoustic reflection
Author :
Carrive, Jean ; Louis, Bruno ; Harf, Alain ; Dojat, Michel
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nat. de la Sante et de la Recherche Med., Creteil, France
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1996
Abstract :
Describes an open system called BioPhony for non-invasive measurement of the airway area. BioPhony, in use at Henri Mondor Hospital (Creteil, France), is based on a recent acoustic reflection method (B. Louis et al., “Airway area by acoustic reflection: the two-microphone method,” J. Biomech. Eng., vol. 115, p. 278-85, 1993). BioPhony relies on object-oriented paradigm and specific programming techniques have been used to take into account time constraints. BioPhony offers a friendly user interface, facilities to communicate with other applications, and support for future extensions
Keywords :
area measurement; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; biomedical ultrasonics; ultrasonic measurement; ultrasonic reflection; BioPhony; Henri Mondor Hospital; acoustic reflection; airway area measurement system; friendly user interface; medical instrumentation; object-oriented paradigm; open system; specific programming techniques; two-microphone method; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic propagation; Acoustic reflection; Area measurement; Data acquisition; Data processing; Databases; Object oriented programming; Open systems; Time factors;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3811-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1996.656879
