Title :
A net indicator for non-invasive arterial blood pressure measurement
Author :
Regueiro-Gómez, Angel ; Pallás-Areny, Ramón
Author_Institution :
Div. of Bioeng., ISPJAE, Cuba
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1996
Abstract :
The authors propose a new indicator for indirect blood pressure measurement based on the auscultatory method. The indicator describes the dispersion of the spectral energy of Korotkoff sounds, and allows the authors to consistently identify systolic, diastolic and mean blood pressure
Keywords :
bioacoustics; blood pressure measurement; medical signal processing; spectral analysis; Korotkoff sounds-based method; arterial blood pressure measurement; auscultatory method; diastolic blood pressure; mean blood pressure; spectral energy dispersion; systolic blood pressure; Arterial blood pressure; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Blood pressure; Cardiology; Dispersion; Energy measurement; Instruments; Pressure measurement; Spectral analysis;
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.1996.656875
