A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
349/39, 326/13.5
A61B 8/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1265607
NON-INVASIVE BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENTS UTILIZING AUTOREGRESSIVE ANALYSIS WITH AVERAGED REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS Abstract A system for non-invasively determining the amount of blood flow within an internal patient blood vessel by performing an autoregressive analysis of Doppler shifted acoustical signals resulting from the reflection of ultrasonic signals due to blood cell movement by averaging the reflection coefficients and residual energy levels resulting from the autoregressive analysis over a number of cardiac cycles. Each cardiac cycle is determined by an analysis of the patient's electrocardiogram signals, and the resulting cardiac cycles are divided into a predefined number of time segments or channels. An autoregressive analysis is then performed on each individual channel to determine the reflection coefficients and the residual energy level for each channel. The reflection coefficients and residual energy level for each particular channel are then averaged over all the cardiac cycles to obtain an averaged reflection coefficient and averaged residual energy level for each combined channel. The power spectrum for each combined channel is then calculated from the averaged reflection coefficients and averaged residual energy level and displayed on a channel-by- channel basis utilizing different colors to represent the different power levels. The utilization of different colors greatly enhances the usability of the display by medical personnel making diagnostic decisions regarding the amount of blood flow.
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Hartwell Walter Thornley
Zimmerman Gustavus Henry III
American Telephone And Telegraph Company
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
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