Principles of pressure transducers, resonance, damping and frequency response

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Gilbert, Michael ^a  

^a MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Damping; frequency; hydrostatic; kinetic; micromachining; piezoresistive; pressure; resonance; strain gauge; transducer

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; SILICON;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FORCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRICTION; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; STRESS; VACUUM; VASCULAR BIOLOGY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84555190493     PISSN: 14720299     EISSN: 18787584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2011.10.010     Document Type: Review

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