scholarly journals Estimation of the finger arterial pressure–volume relationship and blood pressure waveform from photoplethysmographic signals

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
J Talts
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Arterial Pressure ◽  
Pressure Waveform ◽  
Blood Pressure Waveform ◽  
Finger Arterial Pressure ◽  
Volume Relationship ◽  
Pressure Volume Relationship

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARTERIAL APPLANATION TONOMETER FOR DETECTING ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND VOLUME

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 322-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIA-JUNG WANG ◽  
SHING-HONG LIU ◽  
CHING-IUAN CHERN ◽  
JUI-HSAING HSIEH
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Arterial Pressure ◽  
Linear Relationship ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Constant Current ◽  
Pressure Waveform ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Voltage Output ◽  
Blood Pressure Waveform ◽  
Applanation Tonometer

Traditional arterial tonometry permits noninvasive and continuous recording of the arterial pressure waveform, by applanating a superficial artery supported by a bone. In the paper, we present an arterial tonometer to simultaneously register the blood pressure waveform and the arterial time-varying volume. The tonometer consisted mainly of a chamber filled with a conductive fluid, a flexible diphragm in touch with an artery, and a pressure sensor used to detect the underlying arterial pressure. In addition, four electrodes were in parallel diposed in the chamber, two of them were triggered with a constant-current source, and the voltage difference between the other two inner electrodes was assocated with the amount of change in the arterial volume. The pressure calibration curve performed with a mercury sphygmomanometer showed a fairly linear relationship (r = 0.998) between the tonometer's chamber pressure and the voltage output of the pressure-sensing circuit. The volume calibration was carried out with vessel-like cylinders of various diameters and a linear relationship (r = 0.884) of the change in vessel volume to the voltage output of the volume-sensing circuit was obtained. Clinical testing results revealed that the noninvasive blood pressure measurement with the tonometer was appreciably consistent with the invasive measurement with the catheter-tipped pressure transducer. In summary, the arterial applanation tonometer developed may be used to reliably determine the full arterial blood pressure waveform and the change in the arterial volume, and to make the wall compliance assessment of a superficial artery possible.

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