TY - GEN
T1 - A digital instrument for venous muscle pump test
AU - Bhooma, G.
AU - Kokila, S.
AU - Jayanthi, K. K.
AU - Kumar, V. Jagadeesh
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Design and development of a prototype unit to measure venous refilling time (VRT) and muscle pump capacity (MPC) during a venous muscle pump test (VMPT) is presented here. Instead of normalizing the photo-plethysmo-graph (PPG), as is common in the VMPT instruments in vogue, a suitable signal processing technique that extracts a signal proportional only to the blood volume changes underneath the PPG sensor is employed. Apart from the measurement of VRT and MPC, the prototype unit also provides a measure on the pulse rate.
AB - Design and development of a prototype unit to measure venous refilling time (VRT) and muscle pump capacity (MPC) during a venous muscle pump test (VMPT) is presented here. Instead of normalizing the photo-plethysmo-graph (PPG), as is common in the VMPT instruments in vogue, a suitable signal processing technique that extracts a signal proportional only to the blood volume changes underneath the PPG sensor is employed. Apart from the measurement of VRT and MPC, the prototype unit also provides a measure on the pulse rate.
KW - Biomedical measurements
KW - Biomedical transducers
KW - Optical sensors
KW - Photoplethysmography
KW - Venous refilling time
KW - microcontroller
KW - muscle pump capacity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051913211&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944063
DO - 10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944063
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051913211
SN - 9781424479351
T3 - Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference
SP - 466
EP - 469
BT - 2011 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2011 - Proceedings
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2011
Y2 - 10 May 2011 through 12 May 2011
ER -