摘要:
An apparatus for obtaining a pulse-wave-propagation-relating information of a living subject, including a bifurcate-portion determining device which determines a bifurcate portion of an artery of the subject that is present under a skin of the subject, a pulse-wave-detect-portion determining device for determining, based on the determined bifurcate portion of the artery, a pulse-wave-detect portion of the artery from which a pulse wave is detected, a reference-point determining device for determining a reference point on the pulse wave detected from the determined pulse-wave-detect portion of the artery, and a pulse-wave-propagation-relating-information obtaining device for obtaining the pulse-wave-propagation-relating information of the subject based on the determined reference point of the pulse wave.
摘要:
An apparatus for inspecting arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a portion of the subject, an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, an augmentation index indicating a proportion of a reflected-wave component of the pulse wave to an incident-wave component thereof, so that the arteriosclerosis of the subject is inspected based on the augmentation index determined by the augmentation-index determining device, a waveform-related-information obtaining device which obtains waveform-related information that is related to a change of a waveform of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, a display device, an augmentation-index displaying device for operating the display device to display the augmentation index determined by the augmentation-index determining device, and a waveform-related-information displaying device for operating the display device to display, in addition to the augmentation index, the waveform-related information obtained by the waveform-related-information obtaining device.
摘要:
An apparatus for examining arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a first portion of the subject, a stenosis-related-information obtaining device for obtaining, based on a shape of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, stenosis-related information that changes in relation with stenosis of an artery of a second portion of the subject that is located upstream of the first portion of the subject in a direction in which blood flows in the artery, and a stenosis judging device for making, based on the stenosis-related information obtained by the stenosis-related-information obtaining device, a judgment about the stenosis of the artery of the second portion of the subject.
摘要:
An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for determining, based on a high-cuff-pressure pulse wave which is extracted by the pulse-wave extracting device when the cuff-pressure changing device makes the pressing pressure of the cuff higher than a systolic blood pressure of a subject, a time of occurrence of a peak point of an incident-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse and a time of occurrence of a peak point of a reflected-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse wave, and an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the respective times of occurrence of the respective peak points of the incident-wave and reflected-wave components of the high-cuff-pressure pulse, respective times of occurrence of respective peak points of incident-wave and reflected-wave components of a low-cuff-pressure pulse which is extracted by the pulse-wave extracting device when the cuff-pressure changing device makes the pressing pressure of the cuff lower than a mean blood pressure of the subject, and determining an augmentation index based on respective magnitudes of the low-cuff-pressure pulse wave at the respective times of occurrence of the respective peak points of the incident-wave and reflected-wave components of the low-cuff-pressure pulse.
摘要:
The gate means 73 extracts the partial impedance pulse wave SMIMP(P) from the thorax impedance pulse wave SMIMP detected by the thorax impedance pulse wave detector 64. This is done over an intake period defined as a period starting from a first time T1 after the time when the R wave of the induced electro-cardiac wave is detected to the time when a rising edge of the photoelectric pulse wave SM2 is detected. Then, the heartbeat synchronous information determining means 74 selects a rising edge of the partial impedance pulse wave SMIMP(P) that periodically appears as heartbeat synchronous information IH. Thus, it is possible to accurately determine the heartbeat synchronous information IH. Additionally, since the photoelectric pulse wave SM2 that is detected by the photoelectric pulse wave sensor 40 is largely free of noise it is possible to accurately determine the end of the period for reading the thorax impedance pulse wave SMIMP.
摘要:
An apparatus for detecting a heart sound of a living subject, including a memory device which stores heart-sound characteristic information which is characteristic of a heart sound of the subject, a heart-sound sensor which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of the subject that is distant from a chest of the subject and which detects, from the body portion, a physical signal containing a heart-sound component and supplies the physical signal, and a heart-sound determining device for determining, based on the heart-sound characteristic information stored in the memory device, the heart-sound component contained in the physical signal.
摘要:
An arterial-pulse-wave detecting apparatus, including a plurality of pulse-wave detecting devices which are adapted to be worn on a plurality of portions of a living subject, respectively, and detect respective pulse waves that are produced in synchronism with each other from respective arteries of the plurality of portions of the subject, a memory device which stores the respective pulse waves produced in synchronism with each other and detected by the plurality of pulse-wave detecting devices, and a pulse-wave-display control device for controlling a display device to display the respective pulse waves produced in synchronism with each other and stored by the memory device, such that the respective pulse waves are superposed on each other.
摘要:
A circulatory-organ evaluating apparatus for evaluating a circulatory organ of a living subject, including a display device, and a control device which controls the display device to simultaneously and graphically display a blood pressure, an augmentation index, and pulse-wave-velocity-related information of the subject.
摘要:
An ankle-blood-pressure measuring apparatus for measuring a blood pressure of an ankle of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on the ankle of the subject; a cuff-pressure changing device which decreases a pressure in the cuff from a pressure higher than a systolic blood pressure of the ankle; a distal-pulse-wave detecting device which is adapted to be worn on a distal portion of the subject that is located on a distal side of the ankle and detects a distal pulse wave produced from the distal portion; an increasing-point detecting device for detecting at least one increasing point where a magnitude of the distal pulse wave continuously detected by the distal-pulse-wave detecting device when the pressure of the cuff is decreased by the cuff-pressure changing device, significantly increases; and an ankle-blood-pressure determining device which determines a pressure of the cuff when the increasing-point detecting device detects the second increasing point, as a systolic blood pressure of one of a plurality of tibial arteries of the ankle of the subject that has stenosis.
摘要:
A blood-pressure estimating apparatus, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a portion of a living subject, a blood-pressure measuring device which includes an inflatable cuff adapted to be worn on the portion of the subject and measures, with the cuff, a diastolic blood pressure and a systolic blood pressure of the portion of the subject, and a mean-blood-pressure estimating device which converts, based on a minimum magnitude and a maximum magnitude of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device and the diastolic and systolic blood pressure measured by the blood-pressure measuring device, a magnitude of a gravity center of an area defined by the pulse wave into an estimated mean blood pressure of the portion of the subject.