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6939308 Acoustic sensor array for non-invasive detection of coronary artery disease  
Methodology for determining the bounds of a patient's acoustic window is described. Medical application acoustic array designs with apertures accommodated by patient acoustic windows and merged...
6939307 Method and apparatus for monitoring haemodynamic function  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring haemodynamic function in animals and humans during anaesthesia and surgery. During anaesthesia and surgery the subject's...
6939304 Method and apparatus for non-invasively evaluating endothelial activity in a patient  
A method and apparatus for non-invasively evaluating endothelial activity in a patient, particularly for indicating the presence of an endothelial dysfunction condition, by applying an occluding...
6923769 Method and apparatus for monitoring biological abnormality and blood pressure  
In a clinical and physiological abnormality monitoring apparatus, and blood pressure monitoring apparatus detects a blood pressure abnormality and the like of a body by employing a pulse wave...
6915147 Sensing apparatus and process  
A sensing apparatus with a connector, a sensor lead and a sensor module with a spacer placed over electrodes that have been deposited on a substrate. The spacer may have a space for receiving an...
6905506 Multi-axial uterine artery identification, characterization, and occlusion pivoting devices and methods  
A system is provided for compressing one or both of the uterine arteries of a patient which is at least in part shaped to complement the shape of the exterior of the cervix, which allows the system...
6901262 Methods and systems for providing mobile subscriber surveillance  
Methods and systems for providing mobile subscriber surveillance identify certain call signaling messages as candidate messages for mobile subscriber surveillance. From the candidate messages,...
6893400 Angiopathy diagnosing apparatus  
An apparatus for diagnosing an angiopathy of a living subject, including a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains a first...
6881190 Standard pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-value determining apparatus and pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-value obtaining apparatus  
An apparatus for determining a standard pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related value for a living subject, comprising: a blood-pressure measuring device for measuring a blood pressure of the...
6855112 Method of and system for health treatment  
The present invention relates to a method of and a system for treating a health condition of a user. The method includes determining a sensory signal for use to treat the user's health condition,...
6854879 System and method using thermal image analysis for polygraph testing  
Thermal image data of at least a region of a face of a person is provided. The thermal image data is transformed to blood flow rate data and may be used to determine whether the person is deceptive...
6845263 Heart-sound detecting apparatus and pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-relating-information obtaining system using the heart-sound detecting apparatus  
A heart-sound detecting apparatus, including: a heart-sound microphone which detects a plurality of heart sounds produced by a heart of a living subject and outputs a heart-sound signal...
6827689 Sphygmorgh measure method and device for pulse pressure and blood flow rate  
A sphygmogram measure method and device, which detects pulse pressure and blood flow rate simultaneously, includes an upstream and a downstream pressure sensors provided to measure the pulse...
6816741 Plethysmograph pulse recognition processor  
An intelligent, rule-based processor provides recognition of individual pulses in a pulse oximeter-derived photo-plethysmograph waveform. Pulse recognition occurs in two stages. The first stage...
6805672 Blood flow monitor for shock and resuscitation  
A shock monitor comprising one or more probes, for measuring physiological conditions indicative of shock, and a controller for calculating blood flow values, as an indicator of the state-of-shock,...
6792302 Method and apparatus for determining treatment for stroke  
A method and apparatus for evaluating acute stroke patients and for determining whether a stroke patient will benefit from the use of thrombolysis therapy includes obtaining measurements of the...
6780159 Acoustic detection of vascular conditions  
A system and method of detecting a vascular condition within a body receives vibrations emitted in response to blood flowing through a vascular structure within the body and converts the received...
6766187 Method for detecting coagulation in laser treatment of blood vessels  
Onset of coagulation of blood in a blood vessel irradiated by electromagnetic radiation is detected by directing light at the blood vessel and monitoring the intensity of a portion of the light...
6758819 Pulse-wave-propagation-velocity measuring apparatus  
An apparatus for measuring a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates between a first portion and a second portion of a living subject, the apparatus including a propagation-signal producing...
6757555 Ophthalmologic apparatus  
An ophthalmologic apparatus has a first light source for the measurement of a blood flow velocity by the Doppler shift method, and a second light source which differs in wavelength from the first...
6754516 Nuisance alarm reductions in a physiological monitor  
A method and apparatus for controlling alarms in a medical diagnostic apparatus where an alarm is generated when a measured value for a physiological parameter is outside a specified range. The...
6749567 Noninvasive method of measuring physiologic parameters  
The present invention provides means and methods for noninvasively identifying the blood pressure characteristics in each of the seven types of vessels in the circulatory system, including the...
6746408 Method of blood flow measurement in arterio-venous hemodialysis shunts by indicator dilution  
The present invention provides a method for measuring the blood flow rate within an A-V shunt via indicator dilution techniques. Unknown flow resistance within the A-V shunt are addressed by...
6743172 System and method for displaying medical process diagrams  
A system and method is described for determining and graphically displaying oxygenation states of a patient in real time. The system is non-invasive and can display information to a physician that...
6726632 Arteriosclerosis-degree evaluating apparatus  
An apparatus for evaluating a degree of arteriosclerosis of a living subject, the apparatus including a blood-pressure measuring device which measures a systolic and a diastolic blood pressure of...
6723047 Volition induction apparatus and input/output apparatus which use optical measuring instrument, and recording medium  
It has long been unclear in what degree the brain should be activated and how much the blood volume should be varied for controlling a signal by measuring the concentration of metabolic substance...
6719705 Device and method for noninvasive continuous determination of physiologic characteristics  
The invention comprises devices for noninvasively monitoring physiological characteristics of a patient's blood. Generally, probes having radiation emitters and detectors are used to determine...
6716178 Apparatus and method for performing thermal and laser doppler velocimetry measurements  
A therapeutic intravascular device and method for performing thermal and laser Doppler velocimetry measurements. In one embodiment, the therapeutic intravascular device includes an elongated member...
6701171 Method and apparatus for non-invasive detection of angiogenic and anti-angiogenic activity in living tissue  
The present invention relates to a method for non-invasive local quantification of angiogenesis or destruction of existing blood vessels in living tissue, the use of the said method for local...
6699199 Photoplethysmograph signal-to-noise line enhancement  
A ring plethysmograph having a pressure adjustment for locally pressurizing one side of a finger thereby biasing the pressure on an artery wall so that the plethysmograph is optimally sensitive...
6699198 Ocular-blood-flow meter  
An ocular blood-flow meter includes an optical system for applying measuring light to a blood vessel of a subject eye, and for receiving light scattered by the blood vessel of the subject eye. A...
6692443 Systems and methods for investigating blood flow  
The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for assessing blood flow in blood vessels, for assessing vascular health, for conducting clinical trials, for screening therapeutic...
6685650 Fundus blood flowmeter  
When a blood flow velocity in a blood vessel on the fundus is to be measured, a cofocal aperture is inserted to eliminate the influence of scattered light from regions other than a measurement...
6676608 Method and apparatus for monitoring the cardiovascular condition, particularly the degree of arteriosclerosis in individuals  
A method and apparatus for monitoring the presence of arteriosclerosis in an individual includes detecting an ECG signal of the individual's heart, detecting a blood front wave in a peripheral...
6663571 Transcranial doppler ultrasound device for odor evaluation  
The present invention is related to cerebral blood flow velocity monitoring method and system, specifically a transcranial Doppler device for odor matching and odor selection in canine and human...
6652466 Blood flow volume measurement method and vital sign monitoring apparatus  
A vital sign monitoring apparatus has estimated blood pressure calculation device for calculating estimated systolic blood pressure and estimated diastolic blood pressure from information relevant...
6640129 Determination of liver function using the rate at which plasma disappears  
A method and a device for determining liver function are described. Liver function is determined after injection of an indicator dye into the bloodstream, optical measurement of the resulting...
6640121 Otic microprobe for neuro-cochlear monitoring  
A microprobe useful for assessing auditory function by enabling clinical and intraoperative measurements of blood flow, particularly cochlear blood flow and neural compound action potentials,...
6632183 Perfusion sensitive biopsy extractor  
A technique for quantifying perfusion and removing a biopsy sample at a site in a living body wherein an instrument having a perfusion sensor is introduced into the body at a site to be...
6623436 Retrograde catheter with reduced injectate induced temperature offset  
A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate...
6616613 Physiological signal monitoring system  
A health monitoring and biofeedback system comprising a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, a processing device, and a Web site server for determining, displaying and analyzing various...
6607492 Pressure-pulse-wave detecting apparatus  
An apparatus for detecting a pressure pulse wave produced by an artery of a living subject, including a pressure-pulse-wave sensor which is adapted to be pressed against the artery of the subject...
6569104 Blood vessel detecting apparatus  
Disclosed is a blood vessel detecting apparatus which accurately detects a blood vessel using an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels to pick up an image of a blood vessel, a detector...
6556854 Blood vessel imaging system using homodyne and heterodyne effects  
A homodyne interference system splits first and second light beams from a common light source and causes the first and second light beams to impinge upon an irradiating point of an organism at...
6554775 Analysis of blood flow  
Absolute volumetric blood flow of the ocular fundus is quantified using video frames of fluorescent particles circulating in the retina and choroid. An optical apparatus is used to identify...
6554774 Method and apparatus for assessing hemodynamic properties within the circulatory system of a living subject  
An improved method and apparatus for non-invasively assessing one or more hemodynamic parameters associated with the circulatory system of a living organism. In one aspect, the invention comprises...
6540689 Methods for accurately, substantially noninvasively determining pulmonary capillary blood flow, cardiac output, and mixed venous carbon dioxide content  
A method of noninvasively determining the pulmonary capillary blood flow or cardiac output of a patient, including the use of rebreathing techniques to measure the respiratory flow and carbon...
6540688 Method and system for assessing collateral blood flow to a tissue region of interest  
The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in assessing collateral blood flow to a tissue region of interest (ROI). The method includes the steps of obtaining a first...
6537229 Method and apparatus for monitoring and improving blood circulation by resonance  
The present invention relates to a method for improving the blood circulation of a human body by resonance, comprising the steps of: using an energy generating device to generate energy resonating...
6530890 Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for measuring blood flow velocity using doppler effect  
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for measuring a blood flow velocity effectively select one of the positive frequency range and the negative frequency range to compute noise threshold,...
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