abstract：:Health is one of the most important non-material assets and thus also has an enormous influence on material values, since treating and preventing diseases is expensive. The number one cause of death worldwide today originates in cardiovascular diseases. For these reasons the aim of understanding the functions and the ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Müller A,Kraemer JF,Penzel T,Bonnemeier H,Kurths J,Wessel N

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliability of cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) and dynamic cerebral autoregulation estimates (expressed as autoregulation index: ARI) using spontaneous fluctuations in blood pressure (BP) has been demonstrated. However, reliability during co-administration of O2 and CO2 is unknown. Bilateral CBFV (using transcrani...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Minhas JS,Syed NF,Haunton VJ,Panerai RB,Robinson TG,Mistri AK

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversial data exist on acute and chronic effects of competitive sports on central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness. We investigated chronic as well as acute training effects in professional rowers. The trial was planned as a non-randomized, controlled pilot-study comparing athletes and controls. 13 German nati...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Franzen K,Reppel M,Köster J,Mortensen K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant multiple breath washout (MBW) testing serves as a primary outcome in clinical studies. However, it is still unknown whether current software algorithms allow between-centre comparisons. In this study of healthy infants, we quantified MBW measurement errors and tried to improve data quality by simply changing so...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Anagnostopoulou P,Egger B,Lurà M,Usemann J,Schmidt A,Gorlanova O,Korten I,Roos M,Frey U,Latzin P

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

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：:This paper describes the design, construction, and testing of a multi-channel fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) signal generator based on LabVIEW. Special attention is paid to the fetal heart development in relation to the fetus' anatomy, physiology, and pathology. The non-invasive signal generator enables many parameter...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Martinek R,Kelnar M,Koudelka P,Vanus J,Bilik P,Janku P,Nazeran H,Zidek J

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Capillary refill time (CRT) is a simple means of cardiovascular assessment which is widely used in clinical care. Currently, CRT is measured through manual assessment of the time taken for skin tone to return to normal colour following blanching of the skin surface. There is evidence to suggest that manually assessed ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Blaxter LL,Morris DE,Crowe JA,Henry C,Hill S,Sharkey D,Vyas H,Hayes-Gill BR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring the brain state in anaesthesia is crucial for clinical doctors. In this study, we propose a novel nonlinear method, the permutation Lempel-Ziv complexity (PLZC) index, which describes the complexity in the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal to quantify the effect of GABAergic anaesthetics on brain activit...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Bai Y,Liang Z,Li X,Voss LJ,Sleigh JW

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand bone equivalent phantoms (250 ml) carrying selenium in various amounts were irradiated and counted for in vivo neutron activation analysis (IVNAA) by employing a 4π NaI(TI) based detection system. During the analysis of counting data, a feature at a higher energy than the gamma ray peak from (77m)Se (0.162 MeV) w...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Tahir SN,Chettle DR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal can provide very useful information about a subject's cardiovascular status. Motion artifacts (MAs), which usually deteriorate the waveform of a PPG signal, severely obstruct its applications in the clinical diagnosis and healthcare area. To reduce the MAs from a PPG signal, in the...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Peng F,Liu H,Wang W

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic sleep stage classification with cardiorespiratory signals has attracted increasing attention. In contrast to the traditional manual scoring based on polysomnography, these signals can be measured using advanced unobtrusive techniques that are currently available, promising the application for personal and co...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Fonseca P,Long X,Radha M,Haakma R,Aarts RM,Rolink J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we designed and tested a new algorithm, which we call the 'restricted parabola', to identify the optimum atrioventricular (AV) delay in patients with biventricular pacemakers. This algorithm automatically restricts the hemodynamic data used for curve fitting to the parabolic zone in order to avoid inadv...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Dehbi HM,Jones S,Sohaib SM,Finegold JA,Siggers JH,Stegemann B,Whinnett ZI,Francis DP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a well studied signal from which many clinically relevant parameters can be derived, such as heart rate. A key component in the estimation of these parameters is the accurate detection of the R peak in the QRS complex. While corruption of the ECG by movement artefact or sensor failure ca...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Johnson AE,Behar J,Andreotti F,Clifford GD,Oster J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has shown significant promise for lung imaging. One key challenge for EIT in this application is the movement of electrodes during breathing, which introduces artefacts in reconstructed images. Various approaches have been proposed to compensate for electrode movement, but no comp...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Biguri A,Grychtol B,Adler A,Soleimani M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear methods of reconstruction play an important role in medical electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and there is a wide variety of algorithms based on several assumptions. With the Graz consensus reconstruction algorithm for EIT (GREIT), a novel linear reconstruction algorithm as well as a standardized framework ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Antink CH,Pikkemaat R,Malmivuo J,Leonhardt S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstable gait is a risk factor for falls. Wearable accelerometers enable remote monitoring of daily walking. Here, new methods for measuring stride-to-stride oscillations are validated against optical motion capture, normative data determined, and dependency on walking speed investigated. Walks by 13 young people (mea...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Brodie MA,Beijer TR,Canning CG,Lord SR

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Cooperative sensors is a novel measurement architecture that allows the acquiring of biopotential signals on patients in a comfortable and easy-to-integrate manner. The novel sensors are defined as cooperative in the sense that at least two of them work in concert to measure a target physiological signal, such as a mu...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Rapin M,Proença M,Braun F,Meier C,Solà J,Ferrario D,Grossenbacher O,Porchet JA,Chételat O

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that transmission of arterial pressure to brain tissue oxygenation is low under conditions of arterial pressure instability. Two experimental models of hemodynamic instability were used in healthy human volunteers; (1) oscillatory lower body negative pressure (OLBNP) (N = 8; 5 male, 3 female),...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Rickards CA,Sprick JD,Colby HB,Kay VL,Tzeng YC

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Non-invasive in vivo neutron activation analysis (NAA) was used to measure the fluorine concentration in 35 people in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Measurement and precision data of this second generation NAA system were determined in 2013, and the results were compared with the performance of a first generation system u...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Mostafaei F,McNeill FE,Chettle DR,Wainman BC,Pidruczny AE,Prestwich WV

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capnography is a continuous and noninvasive method for carbon dioxide (CO2) measurement, and it has become the standard of care for basic respiratory monitoring for intubated patients in the intensive care unit. In addition, it has been used to adjust ventilatory parameters during mechanical ventilation (MV). However,...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Rasera CC,Gewehr PM,Domingues AM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle injuries in the lower limb are common among professional football players. Classification is made according to severity and is diagnosed with radiological assessment as: grade I (minor strain or minor injury), grade II (partial rupture, moderate injury) and grade III (complete rupture, severe injury). Tetrapola...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Nescolarde L,Yanguas J,Lukaski H,Alomar X,Rosell-Ferrer J,Rodas G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging photoplethysmography is a relatively new technique for extracting biometric information from video images of faces. This is useful in non-invasive monitoring of patients including neonates or the aged, with respect to sudden infant death syndrome, sleep apnoea, pulmonary disease, physical or mental stress and ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Mannapperuma K,Holton BD,Lesniewski PJ,Thomas JC

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:This study compared sitting time measured by a questionnaire (International Physical Activity Questionnaire; IPAQ) with concurrently measured objective sitting time from an accelerometer-based measure of thigh inclination (activPAL).Adults (n = 69), wore an activPAL for a week, and then completed the long-form 7 d rec...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Chastin SF,Culhane B,Dall PM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to adapt a novel near-infrared diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) flow-oximeter for simultaneous and continuous monitoring of relative changes in cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and cerebral oxygenation (i.e. oxygenated/deoxygenated/total hemoglobin concentration: Δ[HbO2]/Δ[Hb]/ΔTHC) dur...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Hou Y,Shang Y,Cheng R,Zhao Y,Qin Y,Kryscio R,Rayapati A,Hayes D,Yu G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we present a method for recognising three fundamental movements of the human arm (reach and retrieve, lift cup to mouth, rotation of the arm) by determining the orientation of a tri-axial accelerometer located near the wrist. Our objective is to detect the occurrence of such movements performed with the ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Biswas D,Corda D,Baldus G,Cranny A,Maharatna K,Achner J,Klemke J,Jöbges M,Ortmann S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant advances in adult clinical electrocardiography (ECG) signal processing techniques and the power of digital processors, the analysis of non-invasive foetal ECG (NI-FECG) is still in its infancy. The Physionet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2013 addresses some of these limitations by making a set ...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Behar J,Oster J,Clifford GD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive fetal heart rate is of great relevance in clinical practice to monitor fetal health state during pregnancy. To date, however, despite significant advances in the field of electrocardiography, the analysis of abdominal fetal ECG is considered a challenging problem for biomedical and signal processing commu...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Varanini M,Tartarisco G,Billeci L,Macerata A,Pioggia G,Balocchi R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for location of fetal QRS in maternal abdominal ECG recordings. This method's initial, global approach was proposed in the context of the 2013 PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge where it was tested on the 447 four channel one-minute recordings.The first step is filtering to eliminate basel...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Rodrigues R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal heart rate monitoring is used for pregnancy surveillance in obstetric units all over the world but in spite of recent advances in analysis methods, there are still inherent technical limitations that bound its contribution to the improvement of perinatal indicators. In this work, a previously published wavelet t...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Almeida R,Gonçalves H,Bernardes J,Rocha AP

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active locomotion of wireless capsule endoscopes has the potential to improve the diagnostic yield of this painless technique for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal tract disease. In order to design effective locomotion mechanisms, a quantitative measure of the propelling force required to effectively move a capsule in...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Natali CD,Beccani M,Obstein KL,Valdastri P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyse the feasibility of long-term measurements of cerebral (crSO2) and peripheral (prSO2) regional tissue oxygen saturation on the first day of life by determining the amount of artefacts and their influence on rSO2. Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements were performed fronto-p...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Schmitz J,Pichler G,Schwaberger B,Urlesberger B,Baik N,Binder C

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a widely employed method for assessment of regional cerebral oxygenation (RcStO2). RcStO2 values are expected to vary with changes in the relative amount of oxyhaemoglobin. The present experimental study aimed to assess the response of RcStO2 to controlled alterations of carotid bl...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Svenmarker S,Häggmark S,Johansson G,Axelsson B,Wiklund U,Haney M

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Focused impedance measurements (FIM) are used in several fields, and address the problem of measuring the volume impedance of an object within a volume conductor. Several electrode configurations are possible, and these have different properties. Sensitivity fields of four configurations have been investigated. We pre...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Pettersen FJ,Ferdous H,Kalvøy H,Martinsen ØG,Høgetveit JO

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an adaptive algorithm for solving the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography. To strike a balance between the accuracy of the reconstructed images and the computational efficiency of the forward and inverse solvers, we propose to combine an adaptive mesh refinement technique with the adaptive Ka...

journal_title：Physiological measurement

authors： Li T,Isaacson D,Newell JC,Saulnier GJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00