Too much pressure: Wireless intracranial pressure monitoring and its application in traumatic brain injuries

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 39-53

  Kawoos, Usmah ^a   Meng, Xu ^b   Tofighi, Mohammad Reza ^c   Rosen, Arye ^d  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CareFusion Company   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN; PATIENT MONITORING;

CEREBRO SPINAL FLUIDS; CONTROL MEASURES; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID;

EID: 84923171481     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2014.2377585     Document Type: Article

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