Measurement of ejection fraction with standard thermodilution catheters

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 325-335

  dos Santos, Icaro ^a   Ferreira da Rocha, Adson ^b   Assis de O Nascimento, Francisco ^b   Souza Neto, Joao ^b   Valvano, Jonathan W ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digital signal processing; Ejection fraction; Neural network; Thermistor; Thermodilution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMISTORS;

EJECTION FRACTIONS;

CATHETERS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CATHETER; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMISTOR; THERMODILUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TEMPERATURE; THERMODILUTION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0036271704     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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