A wearable vital signs monitor at the ear for continuous heart rate and Pulse Transit Time measurements

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2724-2727

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

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG FRONT END; CLINICAL TESTS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FORM FACTORS; HEAD-UP TILTS; HEARING AID; HEART RATES; MEAN ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURES; PULSE ARRIVAL TIME; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; TIMING INTERVAL; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; VITAL SIGN;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HEARING AIDS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EAR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MECHANOCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; EAR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84883016275     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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