Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 753-759 , September 2010

Estimation of pulse transit time using two diametric blood pressure waveform measurements

  • Jin-Oh Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 373-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 894 2187.
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  • Andrew T. Reisner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, United States
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  • H. Harry Asada

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue 3-348, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States

Received 15 July 2009 ,Revised 18 April 2010 ,Accepted 25 April 2010.

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PII: S1350-4533(10)00091-3

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.017

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 753-759 , September 2010

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