Parameter estimation of the copernicus decompression model with venous gas emboli in human divers

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 625-636

  Gutvik, Christian R ^a   Dunford, Richard G ^b   Dujic, Zeljko ^c   Brubakk, Alf O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Divers Alert Network   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Diving; Nonlinear optimization; Ultrasound; Vascular bubbles

Indexed keywords

BIAS FACTOR; BUBBLE MODELS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL SYMPTOMS; CROATIA; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DEPTH PROFILE; DOPPLER; FIELD DATA; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARAMETER SET; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; QUASI-NEWTON ALGORITHM; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

AVIATION MEDICINE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AIR EMBOLISM; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954426683     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0601-6     Document Type: Article

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