Development of a new catheter-tip pressure transducer

Tokai Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 85-92

  Kinefuchi, Yoshio ^a   Fukuyama, Haruo ^b   Suzuki, Toshiyasu ^b   Kanazawa, Masahiro ^b   Takiguchi, Mamoru ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Baseline drift; Catheter tip transducer; CV catheter; Differential transducer; Frequency characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION;

CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0033205825     PISSN: 03850005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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