Title :
Head level blood perfusion under acceleration
Author :
Kulcu, Eray ; Cammarota, Joseph P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Biomed. Eng., Sci. & Health Syst., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
Current and future generation high performance fighter and attack aircrafts pose a significant risk of acceleration (+GZ) induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) for pilots. Head Level Blood Perfusion (HLBP) is one of the important physiological signals in the body, that gives information about pilots state. In this paper we investigate methods to extract useful information from HLBP data, that will help us to monitor pilot´s state and the level of the stress during flight
Keywords :
acceleration; aerospace biophysics; autoregressive processes; frequency estimation; haemorheology; high gravity effects; maximum likelihood estimation; physiological models; plethysmography; poles and zeros; recursive estimation; state estimation; transfer functions; IR plethysmograph; MUSIC technique; acceleration induced loss of consciousness; autoregressive estimation; blood pressure; frequency estimation; head level blood perfusion; high acceleration; high performance fighter aircraft; maximum likelihood method; minimum likelihood spectrum estimation; physiological signals; pilot risk; pilots state monitoring; pole-zero tracking; power-spectrum content; recursive modelling; stress during flight; transfer function; Acceleration; Aircraft; Biomedical monitoring; Blood; Condition monitoring; Frequency estimation; Head; Lab-on-a-chip; Multiple signal classification; Stress;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4262-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1997.758785
