Towards the development of wearable blood pressure sensors: A photo-plethysmograph approach using conducting polymer actuators

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 4156-4159

  Asada, Harry ^a   Reisner, Andrew ^b   Shaltis, Phillip ^a   McCombie, Devin ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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EID: 33846907843     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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