Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Pulse Transit Time and Photoplethysmogram Intensity Ratio

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 964-972

  Ding, Xiao Rong ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Dai, Wen Xuan ^a   Tsang, Hon Ki ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arterial diameter change; cuffless blood pressure; photoplethysmogram intensity ratio; pulse transit time; respiration; vasomotion

Indexed keywords

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARTERIAL DIAMETER; CUFFLESS; INTENSITY RATIO; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; RESPIRATION; VASOMOTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE;

AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM INTENSITY RATIO; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSE RATE; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; R WAVE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG MODULUS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PULSE WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84966929663     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2480679     Document Type: Article

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