The ear as a location for wearable vital signs monitoring

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6389-6392

  Da He, David ^a   Winokur, Eric S ^a   Heldt, Thomas ^a   Sodini, Charles G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC OUTPUT; DEVICE VISIBILITY; HEART RATES; PERSONAL HEALTH; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPH; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; RESPIRATORY RATE; SIGNAL QUALITY; VITAL SIGN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; PATIENT MONITORING;

PHYSIOLOGY;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650810563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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