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7424321 Systems and methods for multi-axis cardiac vibration measurements  
A system to monitor heart sounds, such as to detect a worsening condition of heart failure decompensation. The system comprises a medical device that includes an implantable multi-axis heart sound...
7416531 System and method of detecting and processing physiological sounds  
A system and method for detecting and processing physiological sounds. The method includes sensing physiological sounds to acquire analog physiological signals, where the acquired analog...
7404802 Trending of systolic murmur intensity for monitoring cardiac disease with implantable device  
Described is an implantable device configured to monitor for changes in the intensity and/or duration of a systolic murmur such as mitral regurgitation by means of an acoustic sensor. Such changes...
7351207 Extraction of one or more discrete heart sounds from heart sound information  
A heart sound analyzer component of an apparatus in one example extracts from composite heart sound information one or more discrete heart sounds of one or more corresponding distinct heart sound...
7346174 Medical device with communication, measurement and data functions  
A medical diagnostic and communications apparatus with audio output comprises an electronic processor for processing stethoscope signals and secondary audio signals. An electronic stethoscope...
7314112 Method and device for utilization of a stethoscope as a neurological diagnostic tool and percussion tool  
A tool for neurological and diagnostic testing comprises the combination of a stethoscope with a reflex hammer including a light. When mounted on the stethoscope head the reflex hammer extends...
7302290 Heart-activity monitoring with multi-axial audio detection  
Apparatus and associated methodology for monitoring correlatable anatomical electrical and sound signals, such as electrical and audio signals produced by human heart activity, including (a)...
7300407 Handheld auscultatory scanner with synchronized display of heart sounds  
A handheld auscultatory scanner continuously obtains a heart sound signal from a patient, using a noninvasive passive acoustic sensor, allowing free-form protocol, analysis and display of the heart...
7300406 Medical examination apparatus  
An apparatus to enable health care providers to perform a number of diagnostic procedures, including listening to the heart, obtaining electrocardiograms and sonograms. A pocket size instrument...
7300405 Analysis of auscultatory sounds using single value decomposition  
Techniques are described for analyzing auscultatory sounds to aid a medical professional in diagnosing physiological conditions of a patient. A data analysis system, for example, applies singular...
7291111 Apparatus and method for non-invasive diagnosing of coronary artery disease  
A non-invasive diagnostic tool and method for detecting an obstruction in a coronary artery, the diagnostic tool including a signal processor adapted to receive signals corresponding to a heart...
7289849 Atrial pacing therapy for treating mitral regurgitation  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for treating mitral regurgitation with electrical stimulation. By providing pacing stimulation to the left atrium during ventricular systole, a beneficial...
7260429 Method and apparatus for phonocardiographic image acquisition and presentation  
A cardiac rhythm management system provides a phonocardiographic image indicative of a heart's mechanical events related to hemodynamic performance. The phonocardiographic image includes a stack of...
7248923 Dual-use sensor for rate responsive pacing and heart sound monitoring  
An implantable medical device includes a dual-use sensor such as a single accelerometer that senses an acceleration signal. A sensor processing circuit processes the acceleration signal to produce...
7246069 Method and apparatus for online health monitoring  
A method and system for providing online health monitoring and accumulating data from patients worldwide, wherein a database for storing a plurality of health statuses of a plurality of users is...
7209786 Method and apparatus for optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy using heart sounds  
A cardiac rhythm management system provides for assessment of cardiac mechanical dyssynchrony based on heart sound morphology and optimization of pacing parameters based on the effect of pacing on...
7182733 Cordless stethoscope for hazardous material environments  
A cordless stethoscope for use in hazardous material environments comprising a fluid tight hand held sound sensing device having a stethoscope head for sensing auscultatory sounds, a transmitter...
7174203 Method and system relating to monitoring and characterizing heart condition  
A method and a system for monitoring and characterizing a person's heart condition for various medically related purposes. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring a selected person's...
7139609 System and method for monitoring cardiac function via cardiac sounds using an implantable cardiac stimulation device  
Techniques are provided for performing internal measurement of heart sounds to estimate patient cardiac function in terms of stroke volume, cardiac output, or a maximum rate of change of aortic...
7137955 Methods and systems for distal recording of phonocardiographic signals  
Methods and systems for determining cardiovascular parameters of a patient. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes placing a phonocardiogram sensor on a patient's body at a first distal...
7135002 Determining heart rate  
This invention concerns a method and system for automatically determining heart rate. The invention can be applied to determining the heart of any animal including humans. The method involves...
7115096 Third heart sound activity index for heart failure monitoring  
A cardiac rhythm management system provides for the trending of a third heart sound (S3) index. The S3 index is a ratio, or an estimate of the ratio, of the number of S3 beats to the number of all...
7113825 Method and apparatus for detecting acoustic oscillations in cardiac rhythm  
A cardiac rhythm management device is configured to detect oscillations in cardiac rhythm by measuring the amplitudes of heart sounds during successive heart beats. Upon detection of acoustic...
7110804 Combined electrical and audio anatomical signal sensor  
A combined audio and electrical anatomy-signal sensor which is designed to collect, essentially from a selected, common anatomical site, related audio and electrical anatomical signals, such as...
7107095 Device for and method of rapid noninvasive measurement of parameters of diastolic function of left ventricle and automated evaluation of the measured profile of left ventricular function at rest and with exercise  
In a method of noninvasive measurement of parameters of diastolic function of left ventricle and automated evaluation of the measured profile at rest and with exercise, a patient performs an...
7096060 Method and system for detection of heart sounds  
A method and system for automatically detecting heart sounds. The sound system receives sound data corresponding to beats of the heart. The sound system analyzes the sound data to detect the...
7079896 Methods of automatically optimizing AV delay by way of monitoring the heart sound  
An implantable cardiac stimulator including and accelerometer utilizes heart sound measurements to optimize the AV delay. One or more of the amplitude of the heart sound, the pre-ejection interval...
7074195 Real-time, sound-quality-competitive, single-site from plural-site, anatomical audio signal selection  
A method and apparatus for gathering high-quality anatomical audio signals. Practice of the invention, which is illustrated herein in the context of heart-produced signals, is based upon gathering,...
7062323 Maximum atrial tracking rate for cardiac rhythm management system  
A cardiac rhythm management system includes an operational mode in which ventricular pacing pulses are delivered at a rate that tracks a sinoatrial rate up to an appropriate maximum atrial tracking...
7052467 Stethoscopic systems and methods  
The invention provides a stethoscope device comprising a chest piece, an amplifier and a mixer compatible with a conventional voice quality telephone system. Electrical signals are generated that...
7052466 Apparatus and method for outputting heart sounds  
An apparatus for outputting heart sounds includes an implantable system and an external system. The implantable system includes a sensor for generating sensed signals representing detected heart...
7043292 Single or multi-mode cardiac activity data collection, processing and display obtained in a non-invasive manner  
The method of presenting concurrent information about the electrical and mechanical activity of the heart using non-invasively obtained electrical and mechanical cardiac activity data from the...
7039538 Pulse oximeter with separate ensemble averaging for oxygen saturation and heart rate  
The use of two separate ensemble averagers for processing a detected waveform for use in calculating oxygen saturation and a pulse rate. The ensemble averager used for calculating oxygen saturation...
7036627 Stethoscope with removable light assembly  
A light transmitting device for attachment to a stethoscope headpiece which provides for reversible engagement of the device to the headpiece so that the same can be removed such as for repairs or...
7022084 Heart-sound detecting apparatus and heart-sound detecting method  
An apparatus for detecting a heart sound of a living subject, including a pressure-pulse-wave sensor which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of the subject that is distant from a chest of the...
7010342 Method and apparatus for detecting and transmitting electrical and related audio signals from a single, common anatomical site  
A sensor designed to collect and convey single-site-related, body-produced electrical and acoustic signals, such as those related to heart activity, where electrical electrode and audio transducer...
7003121 Method and an apparatus for processing an auscultation signal  
A method of processing a signal representing an input sound signal is disclosed. The signal is divided in time into a plurality of signal segments, each having an individual duration of time. The...
7001338 System and method for diagnosing pathologic heart conditions  
A method of diagnosing pathologic heart conditions in which a time series of heart sounds is filtered and parsed into a sequence of individual heart cycles. A systolic interval as well as systolic...
6999816 Detecting heart tones to identify heart deterioration  
The invention is directed to an implantable medical device (IMD) that includes an accelerometer. The accelerometer is used to detect heart tones associated with blood flow through one or more...
6988993 Biophysical sensor  
A biophysical sensor including a sound vibration sensing element ( 12 ) to produce a sensed output, and two or more separate signal processing paths to process the sensed outputs to produce output...
6966400 Method and device for utilization of a stethoscope as a neurological diagnostic tool and percussion tool  
A tool for neurological and diagnostic testing comprises the combination of a stethoscope with a reflex hammer. When mounted on the stethoscope head the reflex hammer extends beyond the head,...
6953436 Multi-modal cardiac diagnostic decision support system and method  
A method for extracting and evaluating features from cardiac acoustic signals includes the steps of obtaining a cardiac acoustic signal, extracting physiologically significant features from the...
6947565 Physiological condition monitors utilizing very low frequency acoustic signals  
Physiological condition monitors utilizing very low frequency acoustic signals and signals indicative of body orientation are disclosed. The physiological condition monitors comprise a sensor that...
6932186 Stethoscope with removable light assembly  
A light transmitting device for attachment to a stethoscope headpiece which provides for reversible engagement of the device to the headpiece so that the same can be removed such as for repairs or...
6883639 Stethoscope  
A stethoscope includes a pair of branches, each having a bent clip tube section with a coupling end portion connected to an ear tube section, and a curved intermediate fulcrum portion, which...
6878118 Esophageal stethoscope with separate cover member  
An esophageal stethoscope includes a tubular flexible body having an acoustic input region. A carrier member, which is separate from the tubular flexible body, is selectively engageable with the...
6878117 Handheld sensor for acoustic data acquisition  
An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided for sensing acoustic signals. The apparatus includes a housing having an apertured posterior member, a sensing unit...
6869404 Apparatus and method for chronically monitoring heart sounds for deriving estimated blood pressure  
A minimally invasive, implantable heart sound and ECG monitor and associated method for deriving blood pressure from heart sound data. The device is equipped with an acoustical sensor for detecting...
6869400 Medical unit  
A medical unit including a unit main body having an upper face and a circuit therein. The unit main body further including an input means arranged on the upper face and connected to the circuit,...
6855116 Esophageal stethoscope with carrier members for cardiac pacing and oximetry  
An esophageal stethoscope includes a tubular flexible body having an acoustic input region. A carrier member, which is separate from the tubular flexible body, is selectively engageable with the...
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