Head and pelvis stride-to-stride oscillations in gait: validation and interpretation of measurements from wearable accelerometers.

abstract：:In the present study, laser Doppler measurement was used to quantitatively investigate the microcirculatory effects of contact pressure stimulation (PS) underneath the Hoku acupoint and its nearby nonacupoint, to improve the understanding of the mechanisms underlying acupressure therapy. A control group (no PS applied...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Hsiu H,Hsu WC,Chen BH,Hsu CL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac output (CO) monitoring is not only essential for critically ill patients in the hospital, but also for patients at home and those undergoing cardiopulmonary exercise testing. However, CO is difficult to monitor during daily activities and exercise. In this paper, we aim at developing a novel CO estimation meth...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Wang L,Poon CC,Zhang YT

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The state-dependent portion of cardio-vagal baroreflex control is called baroreflex hyteresis: we observe hysteresis when RR interval and carotid diameter depend on both the direction and value of arterial pressure. The elasticity of arterial walls, as well as the responsiveness of central command reset controls the r...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Ler AS,Cohen MA,Taylor JA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate reproducible measurement of left ventricular volume is important in the evaluation of cardiac disease. Four methods of left ventricular volume measurement by radionuclide ventriculography have been compared and their reproducibility assessed in a patient group. The methods studied were a geometric method, ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Thorley PJ,Sheard KL,Rees MR

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Actiwatch 2 (AW2) is a wrist-worn accelerometer typically used to measure sleep. Although it can measure physical activity, there is limited evidence supporting its validity. We assessed the validity and reliability of the AW2 to measure sedentary behavior and physical activity (light, moderate, vigorous ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Kemp C,Pienaar PR,Henst RHP,Roden LC,Kolbe-Alexander TL,Rae DE

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evoked tympanic membrane displacement (TMD) is a non-invasive technique for assessing intracranial pressure (ICP). The aim of this study was to define reference intervals (RIs) in the healthy population. APPROACH:Measurements were made in 154 healthy adults. Results were quantified by V m, which is the most ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Campbell-Bell CM,Birch AA,Vignali D,Bulters D,Marchbanks RJ

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Manganese (Mn) is a neurotoxin. However, the impact of elevated, chronic Mn exposure is not well understood, partially due to the lack of a cumulative exposure biomarker. To address this gap, our group developed a compact in vivo neutron activation analysis (IVNAA) system to quantify Mn concentration in bone ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Liu Y,Rolle-McFarland D,Mostafaei F,Zhou Y,Li Y,Zheng W,Wells E,Nie LH

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has the potential to become a new tool for bedside monitoring of regional lung ventilation. The aim of our study was to assess the reproducibility of regional lung ventilation distribution determined by EIT during mechanical ventilation under identical ventilator settings. The exp...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Frerichs I,Schmitz G,Pulletz S,Schädler D,Zick G,Scholz J,Weiler N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep-wake patterns are often significantly disturbed in critically ill patients. This disturbance is closely linked to secondary brain dysfunctions in these patients. Sedation not only impairs sleep quality in ICU patients but also has detrimental effects on short- and long-term outcome. In other contexts, light ther...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Weiss B,Spies C,Piazena H,Penzel T,Fietze I,Luetz A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI) is claimed to be a new estimator for arterial rigidity. It was recently defined as one minus the slope of the linear regression of systolic to diastolic ambulatory pressure during 24 h. Although several reports testify its clinical relevance, the explanation of how this n...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Craiem D,Graf S,Salvucci F,Chironi G,Megnien JL,Simon A,Armentano RL

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Eye-tracking devices have become widely used as clinical assessment tools in a variety of applied-scientific fields to measure saccadic eye movements. With the emergence of multiple static and dynamic devices, the concurrent need for algorithm development and validation is paramount. APPROACH:This review ass...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Stuart S,Hickey A,Vitorio R,Welman K,Foo S,Keen D,Godfrey A

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysomnography (PSG) has been extensively studied for sleep staging, where sleep stages are usually classified as wake, rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, or non-REM (NREM) sleep (including light and deep sleep). Respiratory information has been proven to correlate with autonomic nervous activity that is related to slee...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Long X,Yang J,Weysen T,Haakma R,Foussier J,Fonseca P,Aarts RM

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The ventilators involved in non-invasive mechanical ventilation commonly provide ventilator support via a facemask. The interface of the mask with a patient promotes air leaks that cause errors in the feedback information provided by a pneumatic sensor and hence patient-ventilator asynchrony with multiple neg...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Ivanović MD,Petrovic J,Savić A,Gligorić G,Miletić M,Vukčević M,Bojović B,Hadžievski L,Allsop T,Webb DJ

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the linearity and reliability of the mechanomyographic (MMG) amplitude versus submaximal isometric force relationship for the vastus lateralis. Twenty healthy subjects (mean +/- SD age = 24.0 +/- 4.3 years) volunteered to perform submaximal isometric muscle actions of the d...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Beck TW,DeFreitas JM,Stock MS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote sensing of the reflectance photoplethysmogram using a video camera typically positioned 1 m away from the patient's face is a promising method for monitoring the vital signs of patients without attaching any electrodes or sensors to them. Most of the papers in the literature on non-contact vital sign monitoring...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Tarassenko L,Villarroel M,Guazzi A,Jorge J,Clifton DA,Pugh C

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new image reconstruction algorithm is proposed to visualize static conductivity images of a subject in magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT). Injecting electrical current into the subject through surface electrodes, we can measure the induced internal magnetic flux density B = (Bx, By, Bz) using...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Park C,Park EJ,Woo EJ,Kwon O,Seo JK

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are aimed at providing a new way of communication between the human brain and external devices. One of the major tasks associated with the BCI system is to improve classification performance of the motor imagery (MI) signal. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are widely used f...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Su J,Yang Z,Yan W,Sun W

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper a description is given of the development, characterisation and first results of a thermal imaging device aimed at significantly reducing the incidence of diabetic foot ulceration (DFU). These devices will be used in three clinical centres and in two preliminary clinical trials. The first will be on heal...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Machin G,Whittam A,Ainarkar S,Allen J,Bevans J,Edmonds M,Kluwe B,Macdonald A,Petrova N,Plassmann P,Ring F,Rogers L,Simpson R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific heat capacity of tissue is a critical parameter for thermal therapies that act over a long period of time. It is also critical for thermoacoustic signal generation. We present ex vivo measurements of specific heat capacity performed by a dual-pin probe with tight temperature control of the specimen. One 3...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Patch SK,Rao N,Kelly H,Jacobsohn K,See WA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with abnormal cardiac regulation by the autonomic nervous system (ANS), this being reversed by weight loss. Bariatric (weight-reduction) surgery can induce substantial long-term weight reductions. This study compares the acute influence on ANS control of two different types of bariatric surgery i...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Alam I,Lewis MJ,Morgan J,Baxter J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Non-contact physiological measurement is a growing research area that allows capturing vital signs such as heart rate (HR) and breathing rate (BR) comfortably and unobtrusively with remote devices. However, most of the approaches work only in bright environments in which subtle photoplethysmographic and balli...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Chen W,Hernandez J,Picard RW

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-contact vital sign monitoring enables the estimation of vital signs, such as heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation (SpO2), by measuring subtle color changes on the skin surface using a video camera. For patients in a hospital ward, the main challenges in the development of continuous and robust non-co...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Chaichulee S,Villarroel M,Jorge J,Arteta C,McCormick K,Zisserman A,Tarassenko L

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The postural stability of 30 normal subjects in the age range 15 to 64 years was measured on five separate occasions, using the sway magnetometry technique, to determine the day-to-day repeatability of this measurement technique. On each occasion the pathlength and area enclosed by movement of the hips in a horizontal...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Elliott C,Murray A

更新日期：1998-05-01 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 nine healthy subjects, magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure blood flow waveforms in the common (CCA), internal (ICA) and external (ECA) carotid arteries. Useful data were acquired from 14 carotid arteries in total. Flow rates were determined from regions of interest placed over the arteries in CINE-phase ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Marshall I,Papathanasopoulou P,Wartolowska K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of maternal hyperoxygenation on fetal heart rate (FHR) when applied for suspected fetal distress during the second stage of term labor. APPROACH:A single-center randomized controlled trial was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in The Netherlands. Participants were included durin...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Moors S,Joshi R,Bullens LM,van Oostrum NHM,Regis M,van den Heuvel ER,Oei SG,van Laar JOEH,van der Hout-van der Jagt MB

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital signs monitoring is ubiquitous in clinical environments and emerging in home-based healthcare applications. Still, since current monitoring methods require uncomfortable sensors, respiration rate remains the least measured vital sign. In this paper, we propose a video-based respiration monitoring method that aut...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Janssen R,Wang W,Moço A,de Haan G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural gastric electrical stimulation (NGES) is a new method for invoking gastric contractions under microprocessor control. However, optimization of this technique using feedback mechanisms to minimize power consumption and maximize effectiveness has been lacking. The present pilot study proposes a prototype feedback...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Aelen P,Jurkov A,Aulanier A,Mintchev MP

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) for the quantification of liver fat content (LFC). We prepared two phantoms: homogenized mixtures of porcine liver and fat and homogeneous mixtures of liver- and fat-equivalent solutions. Tubes containing mixtures with k...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Li JH,Tsai CY,Huang HM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00