Noncontact monitoring of respiration based on an ultrasonic phase-shift reconstruction method

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 262-268

  Huang, K N ^a   Li, Y C ^b   Young, M S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; PHASE SHIFT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

PHASE SHIFT RECONSTRUCTION;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION;

EID: 0037176428     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237202000371     Document Type: Article

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