Assessment of cerebrospinal fluid outflow conductance using an adaptive observer--experimental and clinical evaluation.

abstract：:During voluntary contractions in humans, the subcutaneous tissues between surface electrodes and active motor units have been shown to attenuate surface electromyographic (EMG) signal amplitude. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between adipose tissue thickness and the electromechnical ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Stock MS,Thompson BJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although people spend a third of their day engaged in sedentary activities, research on heart activity during sitting is almost nonexistent because of the discomfort experienced when electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement electrodes are attached to the body. Accordingly, in this study, a system was developed to monitor h...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Lim E,Lee HK,Myoung HS,Lee KJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and fatal disease characterized by excessive deposition of collagen and associated stiffening of lung tissue. While it is known that inflammation and dysfunction of fibroblasts are involved in disease development, it remains poorly understood how cells and ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Wellman TJ,Mondoñedo JR,Davis GS,Bates JHT,Suki B

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A time-varying parametric spectrum estimation method for analysing non-stationary heart rate variability signals is presented. As a case study, the dynamics of heart rate variability during an orthostatic test is examined. In this method, the non-stationary signal is first modelled with a time-varying autoregressive m...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Tarvainen MP,Georgiadis SD,Ranta-Aho PO,Karjalainen PA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activPAL™ activity monitor has potential for use in youth with Cerebral Palsy (CP) as it has demonstrated acceptable validity for the assessment of sedentary and physical activity in other populations. This study determined the validity of the activPAL™ activity monitor for the measurement of sitting, standing, wa...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： O' Donoghue D,Kennedy N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with claudication have an inadequate haemodynamic response to exercise. Blood flow response will not only have a magnitude, but also a rate of change. There is scope for investigating these parameters, as manipulation of the factors which control them may benefit work to improve the treatment for claudication...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Meeson S,Srodon PD

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes an open loop feedback intelligent system for neonatal intensive care management. The system provides a tool enabling the user to make the final decision to accept or reject the advice given. The system collects 18 parameters from the bedside monitor and ventilator using a Medical Information Bus (...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Belal SY,Taktak AF,Nevill A,Spencer A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wearables such as accelerometers are emerging as powerful tools for quantifying gait in various environments. Flexibility in wearable location may improve ease of use and data acquisition during instrumented testing. However, change of location may impact algorithm functionality when evaluating associated gait charact...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Del Din S,Hickey A,Hurwitz N,Mathers JC,Rochester L,Godfrey A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent AASM practice, parameter actimetry is cited to measure total sleep time in obstructive sleep apnoea patients, when polysomnography is not available. An actigraph was therefore compared to polysomnographic data in 28 subjects with known sleep disordered breathing. Total sleep time (TST), sleep period time (SP...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Dick R,Penzel T,Fietze I,Partinen M,Hein H,Schulz J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial pCO2 is known to influence cerebral autoregulation but its effect on the dynamic relationship between mean arterial blood pressure (ABP) and mean cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV), obtained from spontaneous fluctuations in ABP, has not been established. In 16 normal subjects, ABP was measured non-invasively...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Panerai RB,Deverson ST,Mahony P,Hayes P,Evans DH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the clinical environment the reliable interpretation of EIT images depends on the quality of the data. In the electrically noisy hospital environment the system performance needs to be assessed for each clinical investigation. From the model of noise presented, a figure of merit for comparisons of system performanc...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Meeson S,Blott BH,Killingback AL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal motility is a widely accepted indicator of the well-being of a fetus. In previous research, it has be shown that fetal motion (FM) is coherent with fetal heart rate accelerations and an indicator for active/rest cycles of the fetus. The most common approach for FM and fetal heart rate (FHR) assessment is by Dopp...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Biglari H,Sameni R

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromagnetic recordings were used to check if electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve in cochlear-implant patients activates cortical auditory areas in a similar manner as acoustic stimulation in normal hearing subjects or whether the excitation processes are different. The waveform of the evoked magnetic field ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Pelizzone M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of studies that examine the dynamics of heat-induced shrinkage of organ tissues. Clinical procedures such as radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation or high-intensity focused ultrasound, use heat to treat diseases such as cancer and cardiac arrhythmia. When heat is applied to tissues, shrinkage occ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Rossmann C,Garrett-Mayer E,Rattay F,Haemmerich D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this phenomenological study we focus on dynamic measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath under exercise conditions. An experimental setup efficiently combining breath-by-breath analyses using proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) with data reflecting the behaviour of major h...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： King J,Mochalski P,Kupferthaler A,Unterkofler K,Koc H,Filipiak W,Teschl S,Hinterhuber H,Amann A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed for simultaneously measuring plasma resistance, cell interior resistance and cell membrane capacitance of blood. A three-element circuit model for simulating the impedance of blood was evaluated by comparing measured and calculated impedance frequency curves and was found feasible. The values of...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Zhao TX,Jacobson B,Ribbe T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-ejection period (PEP) has recently been described as a potential parameter for monitoring cardiac preload. This study further investigated the influence of changes in intravascular volume status and the application of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on the pre-ejection period. In ten pigs, ECG, arteria...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Kubitz JC,Kemming GI,Schultheib G,Starke J,Podtschaske A,Goetz AE,Reuter DA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) estimates an image of change in electrical properties within a body from stimulations and measurements at surface electrodes. There is significant interest in EIT as a tool to monitor and guide ventilation therapy in mechanically ventilated patients. In lung EIT, the EIT inverse p...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Grychtol B,Adler A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common method of clinical measurement of arterial blood pressure is by means of the cuff sphygmomanometer. This instrument has provided fundamental quantitative information on arterial pressure in individual subjects and in populations and facilitated estimation of cardiovascular risk related to levels of blo...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Avolio AP,Butlin M,Walsh A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described that accounts for multichannel brain field data (EEG) epochs, after transformation into the frequency domain, by a single oscillating dipole source in terms of phase angles. The method produces a potential distribution for each frequency point ('FFT dipole approximation'). These maps can be subje...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Michel CM,Henggeler B,Brandeis D,Lehmann D

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The holy grail of neuroimaging would be to have an imaging system, which could image neuronal electrical activity over milliseconds. One way to do this would be by imaging the impedance changes associated with ion channels opening in neuronal membranes in the brain during activity. In principle, we could measure this ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Ahadzi GM,Liston AD,Bayford RH,Holder DS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper represents a reconstruction algorithm using a direct sensitivity matrix (DSM) approach for fast 3D image reconstruction in electrical impedance imaging. The boundary element method (BEM) is used in the construction of this matrix. The first images of a conductivity perturbation inside a sphere are reconstru...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Morucci JP,Granié M,Lei M,Chabert M,Marsili PM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we present the T-SCAN technology and its use as a diagnostic tool for breast cancer detection. We show, using theoretical models with simplified geometries, that displaying planar two-dimensional maps of the currents detected at the breast's surface relate to the electric field distribution within the br...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Assenheimer M,Laver-Moskovitz O,Malonek D,Manor D,Nahaliel U,Nitzan R,Saad A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtual shunt describes the overall loss of O2 content between the alveolar gas and arterial blood. Clinicians indirectly estimate the magnitude of the virtual shunt by monitoring peripheral blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) using non-invasive pulse oximetry. An inherent limitation of this method is the variable precisio...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Karlen W,Petersen CL,Dumont GA,Ansermino JM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) can be invaluable in the management of critically ill patients. Cerebrospinal fluid is produced by the choroid plexus in the brain ventricles (a set of communicating chambers), after which it circulates through the different ventricles and exits into the subarachnoid space ar...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Zhang X,Medow JE,Iskandar BJ,Wang F,Shokoueinejad M,Koueik J,Webster JG

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) could be significantly advantageous to continuous monitoring of lung development in newborn and, in particular, preterm infants as it is non-invasive and safe to use within the intensive care unit. It has been demonstrated that accurate boundary form of the forward model is import...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Khor JM,Tizzard A,Demosthenous A,Bayford R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for analysing foetal heart rate (FHR) patterns have yet to meet their full potential in the recognition of hypoxia in the foetus. Following the recent suggestion that fractal analysis can be applied to FHR recordings, the current paper describes a method for distinguishing two simultaneous fractal dime...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Gough NA

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ECG-gated electrical impedance tomographic spectroscopy (EITS) measurements of the lungs were taken on seven normal subjects in the frequency range 9.6 kHz to 614.4 kHz. The results show that in late systole the resistivity p' relative to the R-wave (i.e. p' = 1 at the R-wave) decreases consistently within the lung. I...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Nopp P,Zhao TX,Brown BH,Wang W

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastro-oesophageal pH measurements are routinely carried out to quantify and determine if levels of acid reflux are responsible for symptoms. Although considered the 'gold standard', evidence suggests that pH measurements do not correlate well with the degree of oesophagitis seen during endoscopy. In this study the cu...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Haylett KR,Vales P,Lee SH,McCloy RF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable interest in unobtrusive and portable methods of monitoring sleepiness outside the laboratory setting. This study evaluates the usefulness of combined electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) measurements for estimating psychomotor vigilance. The psychomotor vigilance test (PVT) was pe...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Chua CP,McDarby G,Heneghan C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00