Empirical estimators of gamma fits to tracer-dilution curves and their technical basis and practical scope

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Lopatatzidis, A ^a   Millard, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac output computers; Curve processing; Tracer dilution methods

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CURVE FITTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIAC OUTPUT COMPUTER; CURVE PROCESSING; DILUTION METHOD; FLOW STUDIES; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; PEAK HEIGHT; SIMPLE++; TRACER-DILUTION METHOD;

HEMODYNAMICS;

TRACER;

ACCURACY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; THEORY;

EID: 0035191091     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/22/4/401     Document Type: Article

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