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- This invention relates to the field of medical diagnosis, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for noninvasive measurement of arterial compliance.
- U.S. Pat. No. 6,017,313 (“the '313 patent”) to Christopher W. Bratteli et al. (incorporated herein by reference) discloses an apparatus and method for blood pressure pulse waveform contour analysis. Methods of processing an arterial blood pressure waveform to extract clinically useful information on the state of the cardiovascular system are disclosed. In order to obtain the parameters of the modified Windkessel model, the diastolic portion of a subject's blood pressure waveform is scanned over a plurality of ranges and the range that produces the best fit of data and lowest error estimates are selected.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,211,177 (“the '177 patent”) to Charles F. Chesney et al. (incorporated herein by reference) discloses method and apparatus for measuring properties of the human vasculature using an electrical analog model of vascular impedance. These properties include the compliance of large and small vessels, and systemic resistance. These measurements and others obtained from the model can, in turn, be used to diagnose states of health or disease, and to assess the effectiveness of treatment regimes. For example, see Finkelstein, S. M., Collins, V. R., Cohn, J. N., Arterial vascular compliance response to vasodilators by Fourier and pulse contour analysis, Hypertension 1988:12:380-387, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- U.S. Pat. No. 6,159,166 (“the '166 patent”) to Charles F. Chesney et al., and entitled SENSOR AND METHOD FOR SENSING ARTERIAL PULSE PRESSURE (incorporated herein by reference) discloses a method and apparatus useful for tonometric measuring of an arterial pulse pressure waveform.
- U.S. Pat. No. 6,331,161 to Charles F. Chesney et al., and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING A PRESSURE-WAVE SENSOR WITH A LEVELING SUPPORT ELEMENT (incorporated herein by reference) discloses a method and apparatus of a sensor useful for tonometric measuring of an arterial pulse pressure waveform.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,241,966 (“the '966 patent”) to Stanley M. Finkelstein; et al. issued Sep. 7, 1993 (incorporated herein by reference) discloses an apparatus for measuring stroke volume/cardiac output that includes a transducer for measuring arterial blood pressure waveform, a digitizer for digitizing the analog signal generated by the transducer and a digital signal processor for determining ejection time and heart rate. Processor circuitry determines cardiac output using the ejection time, heart rate, the body surface area and age of the patient.
- Compliance is a fundamental property of any pressure-volume system such as the arteries.
- reduced compliance has been offered as a mechanism whereby the work load on the heart is increased and myocardial perfusion is decreased, thus leading to cardiac disease. It is also thought that disease of the arteries themselves may be evaluated by measurement of arterial compliance. Therefore, arterial compliance is an important cardiovascular parameter.
- the present invention provides improved noninvasive measurement of arterial compliance using a combination of noninvasive arterial tonometry and noninvasive cuff oscillometry. Described are a number of improved approaches to estimating systemic vascular resistance and/or compliance.
- a computer-controlled pneumatic cuff having a sensor coupled to sense pressure and pressure variations in the cuff is used to obtain oscillometric signals (e.g., from an upper arm of a patient), and simultaneously a contact-pressure sensor (e.g., some type of microphone) is used to obtain tonometric signals (e.g., from the contralateral wrist of the patient and, e.g., a transducer placed on the radial artery), and the oscillometric signals and tonometric signals, which are correlated to one another in time, are combined to calibrate one another and/or obtain information about the patient not available conventionally.
- the oscillometric measurement is used to calibrate the tonometric measurement.
- One aspect of the present invention provides a method to compute arterial compliance from oscillometric data (2 nd embodiment listed below). This provides a compliance measurement that is distinct from the compliance measurement described in the '177 patent.
- Another aspect of the present invention provides a method for improving pressure calibration from oscillometric data (1 st and 3 rd embodiments listed below). This can be used to improve the above measurement, to improve the '177 patent's described compliance measurement, or to improve almost any measurement that uses arterial pressures.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a set of methods for building models that compute flow from pressure data (with or without oscillometric data). This can be used in the same way as the cardiac output model described in the '313 patent (i.e., it can be used to improve the compliance estimate).
- the present invention provides a number of improvements or refinements to the approaches to waveform analysis set forth in the '177 and the '313 patents. These improvements include an accurate calibration method and apparatus for using an oscillometric signal to calibrate the pressures of tonometric signals in the contralateral arterial site. These improvements also include a simple uncorrected volume arterial compliance curve that is obtained by plotting relative arterial volume under the cuff against brachial arterial transmural pressure. Further improvements account for a bias (i.e., an overestimation of the in vivo compliance curve for the arterial segment due to shear stresses at the ends of the cuff) by providing a correction for the transmural pressure that is based on stress-strain properties of the upper arm.
- a bias i.e., an overestimation of the in vivo compliance curve for the arterial segment due to shear stresses at the ends of the cuff
- the method of the '313 patent is improved with use of the SVR model of the present invention.
- FIG. 1A illustrates an example of a vascular-compliance-determining device 100 according to the present invention.
- FIG. 1B illustrates schematically details of one embodiment of oscillometric sensor 150 .
- FIG. 1C illustrates schematically details of one embodiment of cuff 158 over an artery.
- FIG. 2A illustrates an oscillometric arterial blood pressure waveform and points of interest therein.
- FIG. 2B illustrates a tonometric arterial blood pressure waveform and points of interest therein.
- FIG. 3 is an example display of compliance measurements for analysis according to the present invention.
- FIG. 4A is a graph of shear force.
- FIG. 4B is a schematic diagram of the forces on an arterial cross section.
- FIG. 4C is a schematic diagram of the forces on an arterial longitudinal section.
- FIG. 4D is a schematic diagram of the forces on an arterial cross section in an arm.
- FIG. 5 is an overview of an example process for waveform analysis according to the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a more detailed flowchart of an example process for pulse contour analysis according to the present invention.
- FIG. 1A illustrates one embodiment of vascular-compliance-determining system 100 according to the present invention.
- System 100 includes an oscillometric sensor 150 and a tonometric sensor 140 , both coupled to computer 120 .
- Tonometric sensor 140 provides tonometric signal 149 to computer 120 .
- tonometric signal 149 is an analog signal that is sampled and analog-to-digital converted by computer 120 at a fixed sampling rate (e.g., two hundred samples per second) to provide a series of digital values representing the pressure measured at the radial artery of patient 99 .
- Oscillometric sensor 150 includes cuff 158 , pressure sensor 153 , and pump 154 , and generates oscillometric signal 159 .
- oscillometric signal 159 is an analog signal that is sampled and analog-to-digital converted by computer 120 at a fixed sampling rate (typically fifty samples per second) to provide a series of digital values representing the gauge pressure of the cuff surrounding the brachial artery of patient 99 as the relatively DC pressure on the cuff 158 is varied by pump 154 .
- a fixed sampling rate typically fifty samples per second
- non-fixed sampling rates are used.
- FIG. 1B illustrates details of one embodiment of oscillometric sensor 150 according to the present invention.
- Oscillometric sensor 150 includes cuff 158 surrounding brachial artery 96 within the patient's arm 95 , pressure sensor 153 coupled to the air line connecting pump 154 to cuff 158 , and generates oscillometric signal 159 .
- Artery 96 is shown here in a super-systolic condition, wherein cuff 158 has flattened the artery 96 , with a tapered artery portion 97 under proximal cuff end 151 , and another tapered portion under the distal cuff end 152 .
- Pump 154 is controlled by computer 120 , and provides both inflation (i.e., filling cuff 158 with air) and deflation (i.e., allowing air to exit cuff 158 ) functions.
- inflation is provided by an air pump
- deflation is provided by a air-bleed valve, both within pump 150 and controlled by computer 120 .
- FIG. 1C illustrates schematically details of one embodiment of cuff 158 over an artery 96 .
- FIG. 2A illustrates an oscillometric arterial blood pressure waveform 210 of cuff pressure versus time and points of interest therein.
- cuff 158 has been inflated to super-systolic pressure, however a small amount of oscillation exists due to shear stresses in the tapered brachial artery under the proximal end of the cuff.
- FIG. 2B illustrates a tonometric arterial blood pressure waveform and points of interest therein.
- FIG. 3 is an example display of compliance measurements for analysis according to the present invention.
- FIG. 4A is a graph of shear force.
- FIG. 4B is a schematic diagram of the forces on an axial cross section.
- FIG. 4C is a schematic diagram of the forces on an axial longitudinal section.
- FIG. 4D is a schematic diagram of the forces on an axial cross section in an arm.
- FIG. 5 is an overview of an example process for waveform analysis according to the present invention.
- Method 500 includes (a) identifying 510 the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated, (b) measuring 520 an oscillometric signal and a tonometric physiological signal, which signals are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter, (c) obtaining 530 a sequence of values that are based on the oscillometric signal and the tonometric signal, (d) receiving and processing 540 the input signals within the computer system to convert the sequence of values to an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter, e.g., vascular compliance.
- FIG. 6 is a more detailed flowchart of an example process for pulse contour analysis according to the present invention. This method includes
- a calibrated radial pressure waveform P r (t) is derived from the tonometric signal S r (t) as follows:
- h height difference between the oscillometric and the tonometric measurement sites, and is zero if the patient is supine,
- MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured at time t M .
- DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured at time t D .
- arterial compliance is defined as the absolute increase in arterial lumen volume for a given increase in arterial lumen transmural pressure, or
- the static pressure-volume relationship in the arterial lumen is the result of a balance of forces. Forces working to reduce lumen size are atmospheric pressure around the arm, tensions in the tissues surrounding the artery, and tensions in the walls of the artery. Forces working to open the artery are lumen pressure, tensions in the arterial wall working to maintain structure and shape, tethering forces between the walls of the artery and the tissues surrounding the artery, and shear forces that occur when the expansion or compression of one part of the artery pulls on another part. In vivo, the pressure wave travels at many meters per second, and so an artery has the appearance of increasing and decreasing simultaneously along its entire length.
- Cuff oscillometry is currently a widespread technique for obtaining the values of one, two, or three blood pressure points during the cardiac cycle.
- the technique is most commonly applied to the brachial artery.
- arterial occlusion is obtained by placing a fluid-filled (usually air-filled) compliant chamber such as a cuff or patch around an artery.
- the pressure in the fluid is mechanically manipulated and measured.
- Pressure pulsations in the artery create volume displacements which are captured by the cuff.
- the pressure of the cuff fluid changes.
- the pressure is measured with a pressure transducer.
- a characteristic oscillometric pressure waveform is recorded from the cuff fluid.
- the artery is in a region of low compliance with the rigid cuff limiting the distensibility of the artery, and the physiologic pressure pulsations produce low amplitude oscillometric signals.
- the transmural pressure in the artery approaches the region of maximal compliance, high-amplitude oscillometric signals are produced.
- transmural pressures approach their physiologic values, another low compliance region is reached.
- Cuff oscillometry has been used to estimate elastic properties of the brachial artery such as compliance (Brinton et al., 1997; Brinton et al., 1996; Chio et al., 1989; Chio et al., 1998; Shimazu et al, 1989; see reference list below).
- the theoretical basis for this capability is that the necessary volume changes are obtained continuously from the oscillometric signal while pressure changes are obtained by identifying patterns within segments of the signal. Unfortunately, continuous pressures are not obtained.
- One way this may be overcome is to assume a parametric model for the volume pressure relationship and then fit this model using the few pressures that can be obtained from the cuff.
- the present invention shows how the few known pressure points from the oscillometric signal can be coupled with a tonometric signal to estimate a person's compliance curve at both physiological and sub-physiological pressures.
- the latter may be used, for instance, to determine the amount of blood-pressure reduction needed in an individual to reduce their compliance to normal levels.
- P lumen pressure
- P sh included all pressures to shear forces
- P c is the cuff pressure exerted on the arterial lumen
- P c,ex is the cuff pressure exerted on the tissues outside the lumen
- P t includes all circumferential stresses.
- Transmural pressure is defined as
- A is lumen cross-sectional area
- s is the position along a line through the center of the lumen under the cuff
- p 1 and p 2 are functions of shear moduli and geometry.
- both oscillometric and tonometric signals are measured (in one embodiment, both signals are measured substantially simultaneously to obtain a series of value-pairs in order to obtain values that are correlated to one another), and a calibration is performed.
- the oscillometric signal is measured by a pressure sensor coupled to a pneumatic cuff whose average (i.e., constant, or DC) pressure is manipulated by the control computer (wherein the pressure sensor measures the time-varying (i.e., AC) portion), and the tonometric signal is obtained by a microphone sensor and/or sensor holder and wrist brace as described in the above mentioned U.S.
- the tonometric signal is measured at the contralateral radial artery site (e.g., the left wrist) from the cuff measurement site (e.g., the upper right arm).
- the cuff measurement site e.g., the upper right arm.
- MBP mean arterial blood pressure
- DBP diastolic blood pressure
- a r ( S r ( t D ) ⁇ S r ( t M ))/( DBP ⁇ MBP )
- the two pressure points chosen for calibration are MBP (mean arterial blood pressure) and SBP (systolic blood pressure), and respective corresponding times t M and t S are used:
- the two pressure points chosen for calibration are SBP (systolic blood pressure) and DBP (diastolic blood pressure), and respective corresponding times ts and tD are used:
- V o residual volume in pump system and hose
- T ATM Ambient temperature
- the computer system controls a cuff/pump system that inflates and deflates the cuff.
- n c the amount of air in the cuff
- inf1 f inf1 ⁇ ( t )
- n c ⁇ ( t ) n o + ⁇ o t ⁇ f inf1 ⁇ ( t ′ ) ⁇ ⁇ t ′
- n max n o + ⁇ o T inf1 f inf1 ( t ′) dt
- the process 50 begins with digitizing an analog tonometric blood pressure waveform ( 52 ), preferably at 200 Hz, with a 16-bit resolution.
- waveforms are collected for a thirty (30) second duration. These data are stored in RAM 22 or in storage device 24 .
- oscillometric cuff pressure data input at port 31 , which, in one embodiment, is obtained at the same time as tonometric waveform acquisition in order to calibrate the waveform in terms of pressure in mm Hg.
- the data is filtered ( 54 ), in some embodiments using an eight (8) pole, 25 Hz low pass Butterworth filter with an attenuation of 6.0206 dB at the corner frequency, for the purpose of marking individual beats.
- the initial filtering at 25 Hz provides sufficient smoothing of the blood pressure data to enable consistent marking for the upstroke (A), peak (B), and end diastolic point (D) for each beat. These locations are identified without the use of derivatives of the pressure data.
- the dicrotic notch (C) and the left and right scan points bracketing the notch (L-R), termed the near-notch region (NNR) derivatives of the pressure waveforms are utilized.
- the portion of the waveform between systole and end diastole for each beat is further filtered in some embodiments using an eight (8) pole, 15 Hz low pass Butterworth filter with an attenuation of 6.0206 dB at the corner frequency.
- the digitized waveform data is converted to pressure in mm-Hg for analysis using a two-point calibration.
- the median systolic and median upstroke values are used together with the systolic and diastolic measurements of blood pressure obtained from the oscillometric cuff pressure measurement unit 35 to calibrate the pressure data.
- the median mean waveform value and the median upstroke waveform value together with the mean pressure and diastolic pressure determined from the oscillometric cuff pressure measurement unit 35 could be utilized to calibrate the data.
- a preferred tonometric method e.g., as in the '177 patent
- identify the peaks and nadirs of the individual pulses using a preferred algorithm e.g., as in the '133 patent.
- ⁇ w wall (of artery) circumferential stress
- a x cross-sectional areas
- FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4 C, and 4 D Please refer to drawings of FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4 C, and 4 D.
- the present invention addresses estimating the systemic vascular resistance element of the 3 rd -order modified windkessel model. Three different solutions to this problem are presented.
- Two independent state variables are used to determine the properties of an arterial system-pressure and flow.
- the relationships between these variables are quantities that are frequently of interest when describing a person's arterial system.
- the ratio of flow to the time rate of pressure change is arterial compliance
- the steady-state ratio of mean pressure to mean flow gives vascular resistance
- the pressure rate of change and flow rate of change are related through the inertance. Because blood flows in an axial direction, it is often useful to express flow as the product of cross-sectional area and blood velocity.
- the present invention is concerned only with prediction and not interpretation. That is, the model may be treated as a black box with any variables found to be useful treated as inputs and with cardiac output as the black box output.
- the model needs to improve upon a model that attributes the same cardiac output (e.g. 5 liters per minute) to all individuals. Even with such a crude model of cardiac output, we know that the windkessel provides discriminating information about arterial compliance. Therefore, improved models of cardiac output may be considered as methods of fine-tuning the modified windkessel.
- the present invention makes use of more of the available information that might be useful. This includes the blood pressure and patient demographic information.
- Ri 0 ⁇ 1+( RC 1 +RC 2 ) D ⁇ ( RC 1 L/R ) D 2 ⁇ ( RC 1 L/RRC 2 ) D 3 ⁇ P 2 Equation (7)
- Heart rate (HR) we can easily obtain from the pressure wave, so we can choose to estimate either stroke volume, or cardiac output.
- the Cohn/Finkelstein model for stroke volume is a direct linear parametric model.
- the matrix F consists of columns of shifted vectors of y and x
- a contains the ‘a’ and ‘b’ parameters
- ⁇ contains the ‘c’ parameters.
- OLS ordinary least squares
- LMS generalized least squares
- B is a polynomial in z ⁇ 1 with coefficients ‘b’
- A is a polynomial in z ⁇ 1 with coefficients ‘a’
- C is a polynomial in z ⁇ 1 with coefficients ‘c’.
- ARMAX modeling is straightforward except for the selection of the proper order (P, Q, R).
- a common way of comparing models of different orders is with a bias-adjusted maximum likelihood estimate such as AIC.
- Several candidate models are fit and the one with the lowest AIC is chosen.
- A(t) is ascending aortic cross-sectional area as a function of time
- v(t) is ascending aortic blood velocity as a function of time
- A[n] and v[n] are the corresponding sampled data values
- t is the sampling interval
- N is the number of data points in a single cardiac cycle.
- the integral is approximated with a simple sum, but any appropriate numerical integration could be used to obtain higher precision (e.g. a high-order Newton-Cotes).
- A[n] and v[n] are obtained as
- P 2 [n] is the sampled pressure at the radial artery.
- the transfer functions hA and h, are obtained using two separate ARMAX models as described above.
- the model search may be restricted to the family (P, Q, 1).
- This method is called indirect because, again, area and velocity are estimated from pressure. It is called nonlinear nonparametric because a neural network is used. This method is similar to the indirect linear parametric model, with two main differences. First, we train a neural network rather than an ARMAX model. Second, because a neural network is being used, additional parameters are easily incorporated. Similar to the ARMAX model, we need to decide upon a model order (Q). In addition, we need to decide which additional variables to include. As with the present PulseWaves implementation, we use gender, age, height, and weight. Data are collected with Doppler ultrasound and arterial tonometry as described above.
- Any network activation type can be used, but for demonstration purposes, we will describe a logistic two-layer multiple-layered perceptron (MLP) model.
- the number of inputs is equal to 4+Q+1.
- the number of nodes between the two middle layers must be high enough to describe the input-output map, but not so high as to make training or prediction computationally impractical.
- the number of nodes is between one and two times the number of inputs. Training proceeds with cross-validation until leave-one-out cross validation sum of squared residuals reaches a minimum (rather than until actual sum of squared residuals reaches a minimum). It is because we are unconcerned with the parameter values of the neural network that this approach is called “nonparametric”.
- This method is called direct because SV is computed directly. It is called nonlinear nonparametric because a neural network model is employed.
- One aspect of the present invention provides a method for computerized calculation of a variable physiological parameter of a patient.
- the first method includes (a) identifying the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated, (b) measuring an oscillometric signal and a tonometric physiological signal, which signals are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter, (c) obtaining a sequence of values that are based on the oscillometric signal and the tonometric signal, (d) receiving the sequence of values as input signals to a computer system, and (e) processing the input signals within the computer system to convert the sequence of values to an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter.
- the first method further includes (f) using an oscillometric signal to calibrate tonometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site.
- a calibrated radial pressure waveform P r (t) is derived from the tonometric signal S r (t) as follows:
- h height difference between the oscillometric and the tonometric measurement sites, and is zero if the patient is supine,
- MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured at time t M
- DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured at time t D .
- the first method further includes (g) calculating a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform, (h) estimating end-effects of the oscillometric signal, and (i) correcting the first compliance value using the estimated end effects.
- the processing function (e) includes estimating a first compliance value using a compliance pressure curve. Some embodiments of the first method further include 0 ) using a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site. Some embodiments of the first method further include (h) estimating end-effects of oscillometric sensor apparatus on the oscillometric signal.
- Another aspect of the present invention provides a method for computerized calculation of a variable physiological parameter of a patient.
- This second method includes(a) identifying the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated, (b) coupling at least a first sensor and a second sensor to the patient, the first sensor and the second sensor each being responsive to monitor different time-varying physiological waveforms, which waveforms are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter, (c) obtaining a time-correlated dual sequence of digital values that are based on the waveforms monitored by the first and second sensors, (d) receiving the sequence of digital values as input signals to a computer system, and (e) processing the input signals within the computer system to convert the time-correlated dual sequence of digital values to an output signal corresponding to a value of the physiological parameter.
- the physiological parameter is vascular compliance
- the first sensor monitors an oscillometric waveform
- the second sensor monitors a tonometric waveform.
- the physiological parameter is vascular compliance
- the first sensor monitors an oscillometric waveform derived from oscillometric signals of a brachial artery site
- the second sensor monitors a tonometric waveform derived from tonometric signals of a contralateral radial artery site.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a system for computerized calculation of a variable physiological parameter of a patient.
- the system includes a first and a second sensor.
- the first sensor measures an oscillometric physiological signal that is quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter.
- the second sensor measures a tonometric physiological signal that is quantitatively dependent on the particular value for the physiological parameter.
- a first analog-to-digital converter operatively coupled to the first sensor, generates a first sequence of digital values that are based on the oscillometric signal.
- a second analog-to-digital converter operatively coupled to the second sensor, generates a second sequence of digital values that are based on the tonometric signal.
- a computer system operatively coupled to the first and second analog-to-digital converters, processes the first and second sequences of values to generate an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter.
- the first sensor senses the oscillometric signal from one side of a patient
- the second sensor senses the tonometric signal from a contralateral arterial site
- the computer uses the oscillometric signal to calibrate tonometric pressure signals in the contralateral arterial site.
- the computer derives a calibrated radial pressure waveform P r (t) from the tonometric signal S r (t) as follows:
- h height difference between the oscillometric and the tonometric measurement sites, and is zero if the patient is supine,
- MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured at time t M , &
- DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured at time t D .
- the computer system further calculates a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform, estimates end-effects of the oscillometric signal, and corrects the first compliance value using the estimated end effects.
- the computer system further estimates a first compliance value using a compliance pressure curve.
- the computer system further uses a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site.
- the computer system further estimates end-effects of oscillometric sensor apparatus on the oscillometric signal.
- a first method includes measuring a relevant population of persons to determine empirically the hA and hv parameters for Equations 16 and 17 respectively, and then using Equations 16 and 17 to derive arterial cross section area A[n] and velocity v[n] respectively. These A[n] and v[n] parameters are then input into Equation 15 to determine an improved estimate of stroke volume.
- a second method further obtains age, height, weight and sex information for each person in the population used to obtain data to empirically obtain weighting factors, and Equation 18 is then used to obtain the A[n] and v[n] parameters, which are then input into Equation 15 to determine an improved estimate of stroke volume.
- a third method also obtains age, height, weight and sex information for each person in the population used to obtain data to empirically obtain weighting factors, and Equation 19 is then used to directly obtain an improved estimate of stroke volume. These improved estimates of stroke volume are then used in the methods described above to obtain improved estimates of compliance values.
- F shx F shr (l+ ⁇ l) ⁇ F shx (l)
- x is eiher t or w.
- the volume change is due not only to P TR , but to P sh as well.
- dV dV tot Normally we are computing the total volume change in the cuff or artery (dV dV tot ).
- dV dV tot a correction factor to convert to the desired ⁇ V TR ⁇ P TR .
- the Third Embodiment uses the following procedure:
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for measuring arterial compliance using combined noninvasive arterial tonometry and cuff oscillometry. Some embodiments include a calibration method using an oscillometric signal to calibrate the pressures of tonometric signals in a contralateral arterial site. The times at which two of the three oscillometric blood pressures (systolic pressure, mean pressure, diastolic pressure) are acquired are identified with times of uncalibrated tonometric pressure waveform. These blood pressures are then used to calibrate the tonometric pressure waveform along (optionally) with adjustments for head pressure. For example, a left brachial arterial cuff oscillometric signal is acquired coincidentally with an uncalibrated right radial arterial pressure tonometric signal. The time points of mean arterial pressure and diastolic pressure are determined from the oscillometric signal and identified with coinciding time points on the tonometric signal to produce a calibration. All pressures are then adjusted by the head pressure between the brachial and radial sites.
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- This is a divisional of patent application Ser. No. 10/211,857 filed Aug. 1, 2002.
- This invention relates to the field of medical diagnosis, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for noninvasive measurement of arterial compliance.
- High blood pressure and hardening of the arteries can lead to coronary problems. Obtaining various measurements of the vascular system, including compliance of large and small vessels, and systemic resistance, provides physicians with information useful in diagnosing and treating early stages of coronary disease.
- U.S. Pat. No. 6,017,313 (“the '313 patent”) to Christopher W. Bratteli et al. (incorporated herein by reference) discloses an apparatus and method for blood pressure pulse waveform contour analysis. Methods of processing an arterial blood pressure waveform to extract clinically useful information on the state of the cardiovascular system are disclosed. In order to obtain the parameters of the modified Windkessel model, the diastolic portion of a subject's blood pressure waveform is scanned over a plurality of ranges and the range that produces the best fit of data and lowest error estimates are selected.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,211,177 (“the '177 patent”) to Charles F. Chesney et al. (incorporated herein by reference) discloses method and apparatus for measuring properties of the human vasculature using an electrical analog model of vascular impedance. These properties include the compliance of large and small vessels, and systemic resistance. These measurements and others obtained from the model can, in turn, be used to diagnose states of health or disease, and to assess the effectiveness of treatment regimes. For example, see Finkelstein, S. M., Collins, V. R., Cohn, J. N.,Arterial vascular compliance response to vasodilators by Fourier and pulse contour analysis, Hypertension 1988:12:380-387, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- U.S. Pat. No. 6,159,166 (“the '166 patent”) to Charles F. Chesney et al., and entitled SENSOR AND METHOD FOR SENSING ARTERIAL PULSE PRESSURE (incorporated herein by reference) discloses a method and apparatus useful for tonometric measuring of an arterial pulse pressure waveform. U.S. Pat. No. 6,331,161 to Charles F. Chesney et al., and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING A PRESSURE-WAVE SENSOR WITH A LEVELING SUPPORT ELEMENT (incorporated herein by reference) discloses a method and apparatus of a sensor useful for tonometric measuring of an arterial pulse pressure waveform. U.S. Pat. No. 6,132,383 to Charles F. Chesney et al., and entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HOLDING AND POSITIONING AN ARTERIAL PULSE PRESSURE SENSOR (incorporated herein by reference) discloses a method and a wrist brace and sensor holder useful with any of the above sensors for tonometric measuring of an arterial pulse pressure waveform.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,241,966 (“the '966 patent”) to Stanley M. Finkelstein; et al. issued Sep. 7, 1993 (incorporated herein by reference) discloses an apparatus for measuring stroke volume/cardiac output that includes a transducer for measuring arterial blood pressure waveform, a digitizer for digitizing the analog signal generated by the transducer and a digital signal processor for determining ejection time and heart rate. Processor circuitry determines cardiac output using the ejection time, heart rate, the body surface area and age of the patient.
- Compliance is a fundamental property of any pressure-volume system such as the arteries. In the arteries, reduced compliance has been offered as a mechanism whereby the work load on the heart is increased and myocardial perfusion is decreased, thus leading to cardiac disease. It is also thought that disease of the arteries themselves may be evaluated by measurement of arterial compliance. Therefore, arterial compliance is an important cardiovascular parameter.
- What is needed is improved noninvasive measurement of arterial compliance.
- The present invention provides improved noninvasive measurement of arterial compliance using a combination of noninvasive arterial tonometry and noninvasive cuff oscillometry. Described are a number of improved approaches to estimating systemic vascular resistance and/or compliance. In one embodiment, a computer-controlled pneumatic cuff having a sensor coupled to sense pressure and pressure variations in the cuff is used to obtain oscillometric signals (e.g., from an upper arm of a patient), and simultaneously a contact-pressure sensor (e.g., some type of microphone) is used to obtain tonometric signals (e.g., from the contralateral wrist of the patient and, e.g., a transducer placed on the radial artery), and the oscillometric signals and tonometric signals, which are correlated to one another in time, are combined to calibrate one another and/or obtain information about the patient not available conventionally. In some embodiments, the oscillometric measurement is used to calibrate the tonometric measurement.
- One aspect of the present invention provides a method to compute arterial compliance from oscillometric data (2nd embodiment listed below). This provides a compliance measurement that is distinct from the compliance measurement described in the '177 patent.
- Another aspect of the present invention provides a method for improving pressure calibration from oscillometric data (1st and 3rd embodiments listed below). This can be used to improve the above measurement, to improve the '177 patent's described compliance measurement, or to improve almost any measurement that uses arterial pressures.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a set of methods for building models that compute flow from pressure data (with or without oscillometric data). This can be used in the same way as the cardiac output model described in the '313 patent (i.e., it can be used to improve the compliance estimate).
- The present invention provides a number of improvements or refinements to the approaches to waveform analysis set forth in the '177 and the '313 patents. These improvements include an accurate calibration method and apparatus for using an oscillometric signal to calibrate the pressures of tonometric signals in the contralateral arterial site. These improvements also include a simple uncorrected volume arterial compliance curve that is obtained by plotting relative arterial volume under the cuff against brachial arterial transmural pressure. Further improvements account for a bias (i.e., an overestimation of the in vivo compliance curve for the arterial segment due to shear stresses at the ends of the cuff) by providing a correction for the transmural pressure that is based on stress-strain properties of the upper arm.
- In some embodiments, the method of the '313 patent is improved with use of the SVR model of the present invention.
- FIG. 1A illustrates an example of a vascular-compliance-determining
device 100 according to the present invention. - FIG. 1B illustrates schematically details of one embodiment of
oscillometric sensor 150. - FIG. 1C illustrates schematically details of one embodiment of
cuff 158 over an artery. - FIG. 2A illustrates an oscillometric arterial blood pressure waveform and points of interest therein.
- FIG. 2B illustrates a tonometric arterial blood pressure waveform and points of interest therein.
- FIG. 3 is an example display of compliance measurements for analysis according to the present invention.
- FIG. 4A is a graph of shear force.
- FIG. 4B is a schematic diagram of the forces on an arterial cross section.
- FIG. 4C is a schematic diagram of the forces on an arterial longitudinal section.
- FIG. 4D is a schematic diagram of the forces on an arterial cross section in an arm.
- FIG. 5 is an overview of an example process for waveform analysis according to the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a more detailed flowchart of an example process for pulse contour analysis according to the present invention.
- In the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and in which are shown by way of illustration specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. It is understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
- FIG. 1A illustrates one embodiment of vascular-compliance-determining
system 100 according to the present invention.System 100 includes anoscillometric sensor 150 and atonometric sensor 140, both coupled tocomputer 120.Tonometric sensor 140 providestonometric signal 149 tocomputer 120. In one embodiment,tonometric signal 149 is an analog signal that is sampled and analog-to-digital converted bycomputer 120 at a fixed sampling rate (e.g., two hundred samples per second) to provide a series of digital values representing the pressure measured at the radial artery ofpatient 99.Oscillometric sensor 150 includescuff 158,pressure sensor 153, and pump 154, and generatesoscillometric signal 159.Pump 154 is controlled bycomputer 120, and provides both inflation and deflation functions. In one embodiment,oscillometric signal 159 is an analog signal that is sampled and analog-to-digital converted bycomputer 120 at a fixed sampling rate (typically fifty samples per second) to provide a series of digital values representing the gauge pressure of the cuff surrounding the brachial artery ofpatient 99 as the relatively DC pressure on thecuff 158 is varied bypump 154. In other embodiments, non-fixed sampling rates are used. - FIG. 1B illustrates details of one embodiment of
oscillometric sensor 150 according to the present invention.Oscillometric sensor 150 includescuff 158 surroundingbrachial artery 96 within the patient'sarm 95,pressure sensor 153 coupled to the airline connecting pump 154 tocuff 158, and generatesoscillometric signal 159.Artery 96 is shown here in a super-systolic condition, whereincuff 158 has flattened theartery 96, with atapered artery portion 97 underproximal cuff end 151, and another tapered portion under thedistal cuff end 152.Pump 154 is controlled bycomputer 120, and provides both inflation (i.e., fillingcuff 158 with air) and deflation (i.e., allowing air to exit cuff 158) functions. In one embodiment, inflation is provided by an air pump, and deflation is provided by a air-bleed valve, both withinpump 150 and controlled bycomputer 120. - FIG. 1C illustrates schematically details of one embodiment of
cuff 158 over anartery 96. - FIG. 2A illustrates an oscillometric arterial
blood pressure waveform 210 of cuff pressure versus time and points of interest therein. At the left edge of the graph,cuff 158 has been inflated to super-systolic pressure, however a small amount of oscillation exists due to shear stresses in the tapered brachial artery under the proximal end of the cuff. - FIG. 2B illustrates a tonometric arterial blood pressure waveform and points of interest therein.
- FIG. 3 is an example display of compliance measurements for analysis according to the present invention.
- FIGS. 4A, 4B,4C, and 4D show schematically the parameters used in embodiment 3, described below. FIG. 4A is a graph of shear force. FIG. 4B is a schematic diagram of the forces on an axial cross section. FIG. 4C is a schematic diagram of the forces on an axial longitudinal section. FIG. 4D is a schematic diagram of the forces on an axial cross section in an arm.
- FIG. 5 is an overview of an example process for waveform analysis according to the present invention. Method500 includes (a) identifying 510 the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated, (b) measuring 520 an oscillometric signal and a tonometric physiological signal, which signals are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter, (c) obtaining 530 a sequence of values that are based on the oscillometric signal and the tonometric signal, (d) receiving and
processing 540 the input signals within the computer system to convert the sequence of values to an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter, e.g., vascular compliance. - FIG. 6 is a more detailed flowchart of an example process for pulse contour analysis according to the present invention. This method includes
- (a) identifying the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated;
- (b) measuring an oscillometric signal and a tonometric physiological signal, which signals are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter;
- (c) obtaining a sequence of values that are based on the oscillometric signal and the tonometric signal;
- (d) receiving the sequence of values as input signals to a computer system; and
- (e) processing the input signals within the computer system to convert the sequence of values to an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter.
- (f) using an oscillometric signal to calibrate tonometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site.
- In some embodiments, a calibrated radial pressure waveform Pr(t) is derived from the tonometric signal Sr(t) as follows:
- P r(t)=(1/a r)(S r(t)−b r)+p
- where ar=(Sr(tD)−Sr(tM))/(DBP−MBP)
- br=Sr(tM)−ar MBP, and
- p=gh are calibration factors, and where
- =density of blood,
- g=acceleration to gravity,
- h=height difference between the oscillometric and the tonometric measurement sites, and is zero if the patient is supine,
- MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured at time tM, and
- DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured at time tD.
- (g) calculating a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform;
- (h) estimating end-effects of the oscillometric signal; and
- (i) correcting the first compliance value using the estimated end effects.
- As used herein, arterial compliance is defined as the absolute increase in arterial lumen volume for a given increase in arterial lumen transmural pressure, or
- Compliance=dV/dP TR.
- The static pressure-volume relationship in the arterial lumen is the result of a balance of forces. Forces working to reduce lumen size are atmospheric pressure around the arm, tensions in the tissues surrounding the artery, and tensions in the walls of the artery. Forces working to open the artery are lumen pressure, tensions in the arterial wall working to maintain structure and shape, tethering forces between the walls of the artery and the tissues surrounding the artery, and shear forces that occur when the expansion or compression of one part of the artery pulls on another part. In vivo, the pressure wave travels at many meters per second, and so an artery has the appearance of increasing and decreasing simultaneously along its entire length. This, along with the narrow pressure range and relatively flat compliance range that occurs under physiological conditions, means that shear forces play a negligible role. However, when a short segment of artery is compressed underneath a blood pressure cuff, shear stresses occur in the arterial walls beneath both ends of the cuff. The effects of these shear forces are for the portions of the artery away from the cuff to pull open the portions just beneath the cuff ends. Thus, even under complete occlusion by the cuff, when the cuff is far above systolic pressure, pressure pulsations from the heart are able to expand the tapered region beneath the proximal end of the cuff because the systolic pressure is augmented by shear stresses. The result is that oscillometric signals persist at super-systolic cuff pressures. Using a blood pressure cuff to measure arterial compliance thus produces compliance estimates that are too high because they include shear stresses that are not present without the cuff. Without cuff compression, compliance is primarily a function of arterial-wall stresses and anatomical dimensions.
- Cuff oscillometry is currently a widespread technique for obtaining the values of one, two, or three blood pressure points during the cardiac cycle. The technique is most commonly applied to the brachial artery. In this technique, arterial occlusion is obtained by placing a fluid-filled (usually air-filled) compliant chamber such as a cuff or patch around an artery. The pressure in the fluid is mechanically manipulated and measured. Pressure pulsations in the artery create volume displacements which are captured by the cuff. When the volume of the cuff changes, the pressure of the cuff fluid changes. The pressure is measured with a pressure transducer. As the amount of fluid in the cuff is varied between a point producing complete occlusion of the artery, and a point where the cuff and artery become decoupled, a characteristic oscillometric pressure waveform is recorded from the cuff fluid. At high cuff pressures (near arterial occlusion), the artery is in a region of low compliance with the rigid cuff limiting the distensibility of the artery, and the physiologic pressure pulsations produce low amplitude oscillometric signals. As the transmural pressure in the artery approaches the region of maximal compliance, high-amplitude oscillometric signals are produced. As transmural pressures approach their physiologic values, another low compliance region is reached. At this point, the low pressures in the cuff make the cuff very compliant. The combination of low arterial compliance and high cuff compliance again produces low-amplitude oscillometric signals. Pattern-recognition techniques are then used to estimate one or more of the following: systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, and mean pressure. Mean arterial pressure is usually estimated as equal to the cuff pressure near where the oscillations are a maximum.
- Cuff oscillometry has been used to estimate elastic properties of the brachial artery such as compliance (Brinton et al., 1997; Brinton et al., 1996; Chio et al., 1989; Chio et al., 1998; Shimazu et al, 1989; see reference list below). The theoretical basis for this capability is that the necessary volume changes are obtained continuously from the oscillometric signal while pressure changes are obtained by identifying patterns within segments of the signal. Unfortunately, continuous pressures are not obtained. One way this may be overcome is to assume a parametric model for the volume pressure relationship and then fit this model using the few pressures that can be obtained from the cuff. Most recent efforts have been to obtain better arterial pressure estimates from the cuff pressure, and an empirical compliance curve is assumed. See U.S. Pat. No. 5,579,778 issued Dec. 3, 1996, entitled “Method and apparatus for producing thermodilution cardiac output measurements utilizing a neural network” by P. D. Baker et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 5,339,818 issued Aug. 23, 1994, entitled “Method for determining blood pressure utilizing a neural network” by P. D. Baker et al.
- The present invention shows how the few known pressure points from the oscillometric signal can be coupled with a tonometric signal to estimate a person's compliance curve at both physiological and sub-physiological pressures. The latter may be used, for instance, to determine the amount of blood-pressure reduction needed in an individual to reduce their compliance to normal levels.
- A balance of forces on the artery produces the following relationship {SEE Derivations 3}:
- P+P sh ═P c +P c,ex +P t
- where P is lumen pressure, Psh included all pressures to shear forces, Pc is the cuff pressure exerted on the arterial lumen, Pc,ex is the cuff pressure exerted on the tissues outside the lumen, and Pt includes all circumferential stresses. Transmural pressure is defined as
- P TR ═P−P c.
- Combining these relations one gets
- P TR ═P c,ex +P t −P sh
- Under in vivo conditions, or with a very long cuff, Psh=0. It can be shown that {see Derivation 6} Psh═p1 d2 A/ds2+
p 21/A (dA/ds)2 - where A is lumen cross-sectional area, s is the position along a line through the center of the lumen under the cuff, and p1 and p2 are functions of shear moduli and geometry. The third embodiment proposes estimating Psh to produce a corrected estimate of transmural pressure:
- P TR,c ═P TR +P sh
- In a First Embodiment of the invention, both oscillometric and tonometric signals are measured (in one embodiment, both signals are measured substantially simultaneously to obtain a series of value-pairs in order to obtain values that are correlated to one another), and a calibration is performed. In one such embodiment, the oscillometric signal is measured by a pressure sensor coupled to a pneumatic cuff whose average (i.e., constant, or DC) pressure is manipulated by the control computer (wherein the pressure sensor measures the time-varying (i.e., AC) portion), and the tonometric signal is obtained by a microphone sensor and/or sensor holder and wrist brace as described in the above mentioned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/045,018, Ser. No. 09/394,301, and Ser. No. 09/045,449 (each of which is incorporated herein by reference). In some embodiments, the tonometric signal is measured at the contralateral radial artery site (e.g., the left wrist) from the cuff measurement site (e.g., the upper right arm). For the Radial Signal (Sr) as measured,
- S r =a r P r +b r
- where Pr is radial pressure, and ar and br are calibration constants (multiplicative and additive, respectively), and the corresponding time-varying waveform is
- S r(t)=a r P r(t)+b r.
- In some embodiments, two pressure points are needed for calibration. In one such embodiment, MBP (mean arterial blood pressure) and DBP (diastolic blood pressure) are chosen, and respective corresponding times tM and tD (shifted to the appropriate time within a cardiac cycle, e.g., tD is shifted to the nearest pulse minimum) are used:
- S r(t M)=a r MBP+b r
- S r(t D)=a r DBP+b r
- a r=(S r(t D)−S r(t M))/(DBP−MBP)
- b r =S r(t M)−a r MBP
- The radial artery is approximately six inches below the brachial artery. This creates a hydrostatic pressure head that can be accommodated by a further pressure head correction factor of p=gh, where
- =density of blood (=1.03 g/cm3)
- g=acceleration to gravity (=980 cm/sec2)
- h=6″15 cm
- thus p=1.03 g/cm3 980 cm/sec2 15 cm=15141 g/cm sec2
- 11 mm Hg if sitting (or 0 if supine)
- and the calibrated radial pressure waveform Pr(t) is derived from the Radial Signal Sr(t) as follows:
- P r(t)=(1/a r)(S r(t)−b r)+p
- In another such embodiment, the two pressure points chosen for calibration are MBP (mean arterial blood pressure) and SBP (systolic blood pressure), and respective corresponding times tM and tS are used:
- S r(t M)=a r MBP+b r
- S r(t S)=a r SBP+b r
- a r=(S r(t S)−S r(t M))/(SBP−MBP) and
- b r =S r(t M)−a r MBP.
- In yet another such embodiment, the two pressure points chosen for calibration are SBP (systolic blood pressure) and DBP (diastolic blood pressure), and respective corresponding times ts and tD are used:
- S r(t S)=a r SBP+b r
- S r(t D)=a r DBP+b r
- a r=(S r(t S)−S r(t D))/(SBP−DBP) and
- b r =S r(t D)−a r DBP.
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- Vo=residual volume in pump system and hose
- R=universal gas constant
- =8.314 in SI units
- TATM=Ambient temperature
- PATM=Ambient pressure
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- (deflation)
- n max =n o+∫o T inf1 f inf1(t′)dt
- (inflation)
- (deflation)
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- time to 99% complete deflation.
- In some of its embodiments, the Second Embodiment uses a method employing the following procedures:
- 1. Apply cuff oscillometric system to left upper arm
- 2. Apply tonometer system to right radial artery.
- 3. Simultaneously, collect oscillometric and tonometer signals.
- 4. Using the oscillometric algorithm, identify MBP and SBP from oscillometric signal. These pressure points coincide with time points tM and ts, respectively.
- The process50 begins with digitizing an analog tonometric blood pressure waveform (52), preferably at 200 Hz, with a 16-bit resolution. According to one example embodiment, waveforms are collected for a thirty (30) second duration. These data are stored in RAM 22 or in storage device 24. In addition to tonometric blood-pressure-waveform data, it is also necessary to obtain oscillometric cuff pressure data, input at port 31, which, in one embodiment, is obtained at the same time as tonometric waveform acquisition in order to calibrate the waveform in terms of pressure in mm Hg.
- Next, the data is filtered (54), in some embodiments using an eight (8) pole, 25 Hz low pass Butterworth filter with an attenuation of 6.0206 dB at the corner frequency, for the purpose of marking individual beats. The initial filtering at 25 Hz provides sufficient smoothing of the blood pressure data to enable consistent marking for the upstroke (A), peak (B), and end diastolic point (D) for each beat. These locations are identified without the use of derivatives of the pressure data. In order to identify the dicrotic notch (C) and the left and right scan points bracketing the notch (L-R), termed the near-notch region (NNR), derivatives of the pressure waveforms are utilized. Digital derivatives inherently amplify noise in the data and thus, to minimize the noise in the derivatives of the blood pressure waveforms, the portion of the waveform between systole and end diastole for each beat is further filtered in some embodiments using an eight (8) pole, 15 Hz low pass Butterworth filter with an attenuation of 6.0206 dB at the corner frequency.
- After the marks have been identified, the digitized waveform data is converted to pressure in mm-Hg for analysis using a two-point calibration. In one embodiment, the median systolic and median upstroke values are used together with the systolic and diastolic measurements of blood pressure obtained from the oscillometric cuff pressure measurement unit35 to calibrate the pressure data. In another embodiment the median mean waveform value and the median upstroke waveform value together with the mean pressure and diastolic pressure determined from the oscillometric cuff pressure measurement unit 35 could be utilized to calibrate the data. Using a preferred tonometric method (e.g., as in the '177 patent), capture uncalibrated pressure signals from the radial artery at a sampling rate sufficient to identify the peaks and nadirs of individual pulses. Using this signal, identify the peaks and nadirs of the individual pulses using a preferred algorithm (e.g., as in the '133 patent).
- 1. Using time points from procedure4, locate corresponding tonometric signal values shift to the nearest peak (for tS), nadir (for tD), or compute the mean of the current pulse (for tM), and calibrate using the First Embodiment, but exclude pressure head correction factor p.
- 2. Using tonometric and oscillometric pressures, P and Pc, compute transmural pressure PTR═P−Pc at each time point.
- 3. Using Pc and nc (see Eqn. VPn above) compute Vc.
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- as a function of PTR.
- 5. Plot C(PTR) and report C(SBP), C(DBP), C(120), C(80), and pressure at Cmax,
- Compliance Range: {C(DBP)} to {C(SBP)}
- Compliance Range at Normalized Pressure: {C(80)} to {C(120)}
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- Maximum C: {Cmax}
- P=arterial lumen pressure
- Pc=cuff pressure
- σt=tissue circumferential stress
- σw=wall (of artery) circumferential stress
- σsht=tissue shear stress
- σshw=wall shear stress
- r=lumen radius
- hw=wall thickness
- ht=tissue thickness
- Ax=cross-sectional areas
- The following is Derivations 1-6.
- Please refer to drawings of FIGS. 4A, 4B,4C, and 4D.
- The present invention addresses estimating the systemic vascular resistance element of the 3rd-order modified windkessel model. Three different solutions to this problem are presented.
- Some Basic Fluid Dynamic Preliminaries for the Present Invention:
- Two independent state variables are used to determine the properties of an arterial system-pressure and flow. The relationships between these variables are quantities that are frequently of interest when describing a person's arterial system. For example, the ratio of flow to the time rate of pressure change is arterial compliance, the steady-state ratio of mean pressure to mean flow gives vascular resistance, and the pressure rate of change and flow rate of change are related through the inertance. Because blood flows in an axial direction, it is often useful to express flow as the product of cross-sectional area and blood velocity.
- Because pressure and flow are both needed to describe system properties, and since it is the unknown dependence between these two quantities that is sought by the present invention for each individual who is assessed, a measurement must be independently made of both quantities. In the 3rd-order modified windkessel model, as described by Cohn & Finkelstein, the problem of obtaining a flow measurement is simplified by only considering the part of the system where net flow from the heart is zero. Since, in addition, systemic vascular resistance is assumed to be constant throughout the heart cycle, we need only a measure of mean flow, otherwise known as cardiac output. Cohn & Finkelstein obtain an independent measurement of cardiac output using an empirical model that is based upon timing information from the pressure wave, and demographic information about the patient. The present invention provides additional approaches that are used, in various embodiments, to obtain an estimate of cardiac output.
- In developing a model for cardiac output for use in the 3rd-order modified windkessel, there are three goals. First, the present invention is concerned only with prediction and not interpretation. That is, the model may be treated as a black box with any variables found to be useful treated as inputs and with cardiac output as the black box output. Second, the model needs to improve upon a model that attributes the same cardiac output (e.g. 5 liters per minute) to all individuals. Even with such a crude model of cardiac output, we know that the windkessel provides discriminating information about arterial compliance. Therefore, improved models of cardiac output may be considered as methods of fine-tuning the modified windkessel. Finally, the present invention makes use of more of the available information that might be useful. This includes the blood pressure and patient demographic information. The conventional Cohn/Finkelstein cardiac output model (see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 5,241,966 and Cohn J. N., Finkelstein S., McVeigh G., Morgan D., LeMay L., Robinson J., Mock J., “Noninvasive pulse wave analysis for the early detection of vascular disease,” Hypertension. 26(3):503-8, 1995 September) meets these three criteria, and next various embodiments are described using three additional approaches.
- Before detailing the models, it is useful to recall a deficiency in the 3rd-order 4-element modified windkessel model. For mathematical clarity, the lumped electrical analog is usually illustrated, rather than the mechanical analog of the model. This is shown in FIG. 1.
- A mass balance through the system leads to the following equations:
- i 0 =i C1 +i L Equation (1)
- i L =i C2 +i R Equation (2)
- i C1 =C 1 dP 1 /dt Equation (3)
- i C2 ═C 2 dP 2 /dt Equation (4)
- Ldi L /dt=P 2 −P 1 Equation (5)
- P 2 ═Ri R Equation (6)
- where the i's are flows through respective elements. After some minor algebraic manipulations we obtain the following 3rd-order ordinary differential equation:
- Ri 0={1+(RC 1 +RC 2)D−(RC 1 L/R)D 2−(RC 1 L/RRC 2)D 3 }P 2 Equation (7)
- where D is the differential operator with respect to time. Setting i0=0 (for diastole) and using Laplace transforms we easily obtain an expression for P2 as a function directly of time, and indirectly of RC1, RC2, and L/R. We then use curve-fitting to estimate RC1, RC2, and L/R from a sample of measured P2 data. Herein lies the problem—we are unable to estimate C1, C2, or L without a separate estimate of R.
- To obtain an estimate of R, we again use equation (6). Throughout we have assumed that R is constant, so integrating both sides we obtain ∫P2dt=R ∫iRdt. We have P2 data, but we don't know iR, so we rearrange equations (1)-(2) to obtain iR=(i0−iC1)−iC2. Integrating, we get ∫iRdt=∫i0dt−(∫iC1dt+∫iC2dt). Substituting equations (3)-(4) we get ∫iC1dt+∫iC2dt=∫C1dP1/dt dt+∫C2dP2/dt dt=C1∫dP1+C2∫dP2=C1(P1−P1,t=t0)+C2(P2−P2,t=t0). Since P1, like P2, is a periodic function at steady state, it reaches nearly the same pressure value at any two points separated by a pulse duration. We get C1(P1,t=t0+T−P1,t=t0)+C2(P2,t=t0+T−P2,t=t0)=0, so that finally,
- R=∫P 2 dt/i 0 dt, (8) Equation (8)
- where the integrals are over a full cardiac cycle. The reason this expression for R is likely to be useful is that
- ∫i 0 dt=CO/HR=stroke volume. (9) Equation (9)
- Heart rate (HR) we can easily obtain from the pressure wave, so we can choose to estimate either stroke volume, or cardiac output.
- The Cohn/Finkelstein model for stroke volume is a direct linear parametric model. Here we offer three additional categories of models—an indirect linear parametric model, an indirect nonlinear nonparametric model, and a direct nonlinear nonparametric model.
- Indirect Linear Parametric Model
- We call this approach linear parametric because it uses ARMAX (AutoRegressive Moving Average with eXogenous input) models [1]. It is indirect because instead of estimating stroke volume directly, ascending aortic cross-sectional area and blood velocity are modeled and combined to estimate stroke volume.
- Two ARMAX models are used, one to compute a transfer function from radial arterial pressure to ascending aortic velocity, another to estimate ascending aortic cross-sectional area from radial arterial pressure. A brief review of ARMAX modeling is next presented.
- An ARMAX model for y(t) as a function of x(t) is given by
- y[n]=Σ p=1,P a[p]y[n−p]+Σ q=0,Q b[q]x[n−q]+w[n]+Σ r=1,R c[r]w[n−r] Equation (10)
- where w is the unknown error, and the vectors a, b, and c are the model parameters. This equation can be rewritten in matrix form as
- Y=Fa+Wβ Equation (11)
- where the matrix F consists of columns of shifted vectors of y and x, a contains the ‘a’ and ‘b’ parameters, and β contains the ‘c’ parameters. A common way of obtaining estimates of the a, b, and c parameters is to use an iterative two-step ordinary least squares (OLS) algorithm followed by a generalized least squares (GLS) algorithm until convergence is reached [2].
- Taking the Z-transform of the above expression for y[n] and rearranging, we obtain
- y(z)=(B/A)x(z)+(C/A)w(z) Equation (12)
- where B is a polynomial in z−1 with coefficients ‘b’, A is a polynomial in z−1 with coefficients ‘a’, and C is a polynomial in z−1 with coefficients ‘c’. Taking the inverse Z-transform gives
- y[n]=Σ i=1,N h v [n−i]x[i]+Σ i=1,N h w [n−i]w[i]. Equation (13)
- Estimating y[n] by its expected values (i.e. neglecting error) gives the desired result
- y[n]=Σ i h v [n−i]x[i]. Equation (14)
- ARMAX modeling is straightforward except for the selection of the proper order (P, Q, R). A common way of comparing models of different orders is with a bias-adjusted maximum likelihood estimate such as AIC. Several candidate models are fit and the one with the lowest AIC is chosen.
- Allen & Murray used ARMAX models to predict photoelectric phlethysmographic blood volumes from isovolumic calibrated photoelectric finger pressures [3]. They used a first-order two-parameter autoregressive (ARX) model (P, Q, R)=(1,1,0) with b[0]=0. The ability of these low-order models to predict volumes from pressures was modest, but suggests that reasonable models might be obtainable with only a few parameters. Allen & Murray related finger volumes to finger pressures, while our needs are to relate aortic variables to radial arterial pressure. Thus the transfer functions that we compute implicitly combine a local pressure to velocity (or area) transfer function with an inter-positional transfer function (aorta to radial artery).
- We obtain stroke volume as
- SV=∫flow(t)dt=∫A(t)v(t)dtΣt n=1,N A[n]v[n]
- where A(t) is ascending aortic cross-sectional area as a function of time, v(t) is ascending aortic blood velocity as a function of time, A[n] and v[n] are the corresponding sampled data values, t is the sampling interval, and N is the number of data points in a single cardiac cycle. Here the integral is approximated with a simple sum, but any appropriate numerical integration could be used to obtain higher precision (e.g. a high-order Newton-Cotes). A[n] and v[n] are obtained as
- A[n]=Σ i h A [n−i]P 2 [i] Equation (16)
- v[n]=Σ i h v [n−i]P 2 [i] Equation (17)
- where P2[n] is the sampled pressure at the radial artery. The transfer functions hA and h, are obtained using two separate ARMAX models as described above. The model search may be restricted to the family (P, Q, 1).
- The following procedure is therefore proposed for any particular patient group of interest:
- 1. Using a Doppler ultrasound (US) probe, obtain real-time ascending aortic cross-sectional areas and blood velocities while simultaneously collecting radial arterial tonometric pressures. Obtain an oscillometric cuff mean and diastolic blood pressure reading immediately before the collection. Obtain several cardiac cycles of data for each of several human subjects.
- 2. For each subject, estimate the transfer function parameters (a's, b's, and c's) using the two-step ARMAX algorithm described above and selecting the model with the lowest AIC. Obtain both the pressure to velocity transfer function and the pressure to area transfer functions.
- 3. Average the transfer function parameters for the several beats and for all individuals.
- 4. Using the averaged transfer function parameters, compute the two transfer functions (hv[n], and hA[n]).
- 5. In all fLiture windkessel analyses, estimate SV using Equations (15), (16), and (17).
- Indirect Nonlinear Nonparametric Model
- This method is called indirect because, again, area and velocity are estimated from pressure. It is called nonlinear nonparametric because a neural network is used. This method is similar to the indirect linear parametric model, with two main differences. First, we train a neural network rather than an ARMAX model. Second, because a neural network is being used, additional parameters are easily incorporated. Similar to the ARMAX model, we need to decide upon a model order (Q). In addition, we need to decide which additional variables to include. As with the present PulseWaves implementation, we use gender, age, height, and weight. Data are collected with Doppler ultrasound and arterial tonometry as described above. Any network activation type can be used, but for demonstration purposes, we will describe a logistic two-layer multiple-layered perceptron (MLP) model. The number of inputs is equal to 4+Q+1. There are two outputs (velocity and area). The number of nodes between the two middle layers must be high enough to describe the input-output map, but not so high as to make training or prediction computationally impractical. We always use the same number of nodes in both layers. The number of nodes is between one and two times the number of inputs. Training proceeds with cross-validation until leave-one-out cross validation sum of squared residuals reaches a minimum (rather than until actual sum of squared residuals reaches a minimum). It is because we are unconcerned with the parameter values of the neural network that this approach is called “nonparametric”.
- Any nonlinear parameter estimation algorithm may be used, e.g. conjugate gradients, backpropagation, Newton or quasi-Newton methods. Training stops at minimum leave-one-out cross-validation sum-of-squared residuals. The cross-validation sum-of-squares is also used to compare models of different orders. For each beat, we train the two outputs (v[n] and A[n]) to the corresponding pressure, P2[n], as well as the previous Q P2 values, P2[n−i] for i=1 . . . Q. Age, height, weight, and sex are also input.
- The model can be written as
- (v[n],A[n])=NN(age,height,weight,sex,P 2 [n],P 2 [n−1], . . . ,P 2 [n−Q])
- Therefore the following procedure is used, in one embodiment, for a particular group of interest:
- 1. Collect data as in the indirect linear parametric model above. Because of the generality of neural network models, it may be necessary to obtain data from50 to 100 individuals.
- 2. Using the method described above, train and select a neural network configuration that predicts v[n] and A[n] from P2[n], age, height, weight, and sex (Equation (18)).
- 3. In all future windkessel analyses, estimate SV using Equations (15) and (18).
- Direct Nonlinear Nonparametric Model
- This method is called direct because SV is computed directly. It is called nonlinear nonparametric because a neural network model is employed.
- This approach is similar to the indirect nonlinear nonparametric model except that the neural network output is SV, and a fixed set of pressure values are used as inputs. The model is expressed in the following way:
- SV=NN(age,height,weight,sex,P 2[0],P 2[1], . . . ,P 2 [tf])
- Unlike with the indirect nonlinear approach, this approach is dependent upon the start and end times used for the pressure inputs. We use the foot of each beat for the first pressure point. Various end-points can be tried to obtain the lowest prediction error. The spacing between samples can also be adjusted to obtain simpler models with fewer inputs. Training should otherwise proceed as described above for the indirect nonlinear nonparametric model.
- The following procedure is used, in one embodiment, for a particular group of interest:
- 1. Using a Fick dilution method, estimate several cardiac outputs for an individual. Simultaneously, collect tonometric pressure recordings at the radial artery that are calibrated to brachial oscillometric cuff blood pressure estimates.
- 2. Using the method described above, train and select a neural network configuration that predicts cardiac output from P2[n], age, height, weight, and sex (Equation (19)).
- 3. In future windkessel analyses, estimate cardiac output using Equation (19).
- Conclusion
- One aspect of the present invention provides a method for computerized calculation of a variable physiological parameter of a patient. The first method includes (a) identifying the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated, (b) measuring an oscillometric signal and a tonometric physiological signal, which signals are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter, (c) obtaining a sequence of values that are based on the oscillometric signal and the tonometric signal, (d) receiving the sequence of values as input signals to a computer system, and (e) processing the input signals within the computer system to convert the sequence of values to an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter.
- In some embodiments, the first method further includes (f) using an oscillometric signal to calibrate tonometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site. In some embodiments, a calibrated radial pressure waveform Pr(t) is derived from the tonometric signal Sr(t) as follows:
- P r(t)=(1/a r)(S r(t)−b r)+p)
- where ar=(Sr(tD)−Sr(tM))/(DBP−MBP),
- br=Sr(tM)−ar MBP, and
- p=gh are calibration factors, and where
- =density of blood,
- g=acceleration to gravity,
- h=height difference between the oscillometric and the tonometric measurement sites, and is zero if the patient is supine,
- MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured at time tM, and DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured at time tD.
- In some embodiments, the first method further includes (g) calculating a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform, (h) estimating end-effects of the oscillometric signal, and (i) correcting the first compliance value using the estimated end effects.
- In some embodiments, the processing function (e) includes estimating a first compliance value using a compliance pressure curve. Some embodiments of the first method further include0) using a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site. Some embodiments of the first method further include (h) estimating end-effects of oscillometric sensor apparatus on the oscillometric signal.
- Another aspect of the present invention provides a method for computerized calculation of a variable physiological parameter of a patient. This second method includes(a) identifying the physiological parameter to be quantitatively monitored and estimated, (b) coupling at least a first sensor and a second sensor to the patient, the first sensor and the second sensor each being responsive to monitor different time-varying physiological waveforms, which waveforms are quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter, (c) obtaining a time-correlated dual sequence of digital values that are based on the waveforms monitored by the first and second sensors, (d) receiving the sequence of digital values as input signals to a computer system, and (e) processing the input signals within the computer system to convert the time-correlated dual sequence of digital values to an output signal corresponding to a value of the physiological parameter.
- In some embodiments of the second method, the physiological parameter is vascular compliance, the first sensor monitors an oscillometric waveform, and the second sensor monitors a tonometric waveform.
- In some embodiments of the second method, the physiological parameter is vascular compliance, the first sensor monitors an oscillometric waveform derived from oscillometric signals of a brachial artery site, and the second sensor monitors a tonometric waveform derived from tonometric signals of a contralateral radial artery site.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a system for computerized calculation of a variable physiological parameter of a patient. The system includes a first and a second sensor. The first sensor measures an oscillometric physiological signal that is quantitatively dependent on a particular value for the physiological parameter. The second sensor measures a tonometric physiological signal that is quantitatively dependent on the particular value for the physiological parameter. A first analog-to-digital converter, operatively coupled to the first sensor, generates a first sequence of digital values that are based on the oscillometric signal. A second analog-to-digital converter, operatively coupled to the second sensor, generates a second sequence of digital values that are based on the tonometric signal. A computer system, operatively coupled to the first and second analog-to-digital converters, processes the first and second sequences of values to generate an output signal corresponding to the particular value of the physiological parameter.
- In some embodiments, the first sensor senses the oscillometric signal from one side of a patient, the second sensor senses the tonometric signal from a contralateral arterial site, and the computer uses the oscillometric signal to calibrate tonometric pressure signals in the contralateral arterial site.
- In some embodiments, the computer derives a calibrated radial pressure waveform Pr(t) from the tonometric signal Sr(t) as follows:
- P r(t)=(1/a r)(S r(t)−b r)+p
- where ar=(Sr(tD)−Sr(tM))/(DBP−MBP),
- br=Sr(tM)−ar MBP, and
- p=gh are calibration factors, and where
- =density of blood,
- g=acceleration to gravity,
- h=height difference between the oscillometric and the tonometric measurement sites, and is zero if the patient is supine,
- MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured at time tM, &
- DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured at time tD.
- In some embodiments, the computer system further calculates a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform, estimates end-effects of the oscillometric signal, and corrects the first compliance value using the estimated end effects.
- In some embodiments, the computer system further estimates a first compliance value using a compliance pressure curve.
- In some embodiments, the computer system further uses a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site.
- In some embodiments, the computer system further estimates end-effects of oscillometric sensor apparatus on the oscillometric signal.
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- Another aspect of the invention is to improve the accuracy of the estimate of stroke volume using one of three methods. A first method includes measuring a relevant population of persons to determine empirically the hA and hv parameters for Equations 16 and 17 respectively, and then using Equations 16 and 17 to derive arterial cross section area A[n] and velocity v[n] respectively. These A[n] and v[n] parameters are then input into Equation 15 to determine an improved estimate of stroke volume. A second method further obtains age, height, weight and sex information for each person in the population used to obtain data to empirically obtain weighting factors, and Equation 18 is then used to obtain the A[n] and v[n] parameters, which are then input into Equation 15 to determine an improved estimate of stroke volume. A third method also obtains age, height, weight and sex information for each person in the population used to obtain data to empirically obtain weighting factors, and Equation 19 is then used to directly obtain an improved estimate of stroke volume. These improved estimates of stroke volume are then used in the methods described above to obtain improved estimates of compliance values.
- On the following pages are explanations of the derivations 1-6 described above.
- The following is Derivation 1:
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- Using Derivation 2 and FIGS. 4C and 4D, we write a fotce balance, and derive the relationship between various pressues in te arn and caff.
- Force Balance:
- F+F shw +F sht =F c +F w +F t
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- F=Prwδl
- Fc=Pc(rw+hw+hi)δl
- Fshx=Fshr(l+δl)−Fshx(l)
- δlFx=σxhxδl
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- 2. Calculate rw using PTR and the sigmoid model.
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- 7. Calculate Ccorrected=κC.
- It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive. Many other embodiments will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the above description. The scope of the invention should, therefore, be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.
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1. A method for computerized calculation of one or more arterial-compliance parameters of a patient, the method comprising:
measuring an oscillometric signal and a tonometric arterial signal of the patient;
obtaining one or more oscillometric parameters derived from the oscillometric signal;
obtaining a sequence of tonometric values that are based on the tonometric signal;
receiving the one or more oscillometric parameters and the sequence of tonometric values as inputs into a computer system;
calibrating the sequence of tonometric values based on the one or more oscillometric parameters to generate a calibrated tonometric pressure waveform; and
processing the calibrated tonometric pressure waveform within the computer system to generate one or more values each corresponding to one of the one or more arterial-compliance parameters.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values includes calibrating each tonometric value Srt) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr)
wherein the additive correctionr and the multiplicative correctionr are calibration constants based at least in part on blood pressure parameters derived from the oscillometric parameters, and each Sr(t) is the tonometric signal value at a time t.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values includes calibrating each tonometric value Set) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr)
wherein the additive correctionr and the multiplicative correctionr are calculated as follows:
the multiplicative correctionr=(DBP−MBP)/(S r(t D)−S r(t M)) the additive correctionr =MBP/(multiplicative correctionr)−S r(t M)
wherein
each Sr(t) is the tonometric signal value at a time t,
MBP is a mean arterial-blood-pressure oscillometric parameter measured near time tM, and
DBP is a diastolic-blood-pressure oscillometric parameter measured near time tD.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values includes calibrating each tonometric value Sr(t) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr)
wherein the additive correctionr and the multiplicative correctionr are calculated as follows:
the multiplicative correctionr=(SBP−MBP)/(S r(t S)−Sr(t M)) the additive correctionr =MBP/(multiplicative correctionr)−Sr(t M)
wherein
each Sr(t) is the tonometric signal value at a time t,
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values includes calibrating each tonometric value Sr(t) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr)
wherein the additive correctionr and the multiplicative correctionr are calculated as follows:
the multiplicative correctionr=(SBP−DBP)/(S r(t S)−S r(t D)), and the additive correctionr =DBP/(multiplicative correctionr)−S r(t D)
wherein
each Sr(t) is the tonometric signal value at a time t,
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values Sr(t) includes generating the calibrated tonometric pressure waveform Pr(t) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)−b r)(1/a r))+p
where ar and br are calibration constants based at least in part on blood pressure parameters derived from the oscillometric signal, and p is a hydrostatic pressure head parameter constant.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values Sr(t) includes calculating:
a r=(S r(t D)−S r(t M))/(DBP−MBP), and b r =S r(t M)−a r MBP, wherein
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values Sr(t) includes calculating:
a r=(S r(t S)−S r(t M))/(SBP−MBP), and b r =S r(t M)−a r MBP), wherein
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS.
9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of tonometric values Sr(t) includes calculating:
a r=(S r(t S)−S r(t D))/(SBP−DBP), and b r =S r(t D)−a r DBP, wherein
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of values includes using a mean blood pressure value and a diastolic blood pressure value from the oscillometric signal to calibrate the sequence of tonometric pressure values.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of values includes using a mean blood pressure value and a systolic blood pressure value from the oscillometric signal to calibrate the sequence of tonometric pressure values.
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calibrating of the sequence of values includes using a systolic blood pressure value and a diastolic blood pressure value from the oscillometric signal to calibrate the sequence of tonometric pressure values.
13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform;
estimating end-effects of the oscillometric signal; and
correcting the first compliance value using the estimated end effects.
14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the processing of the calibrated tonometric pressure waveform includes estimating a first compliance value using a compliance pressure curve.
15. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
using time points tM and tS from the sequence of values based on the tonometric signal, locating corresponding tonometric signal values shifted to the nearest peak (for tS), nadir (for tD), and calibrating using the formula
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr),
using tonometric and oscillometric pressures, P and Pc, computing transmural pressure PTR=P−Pc at each time point,
using Pc and nc computing Vc,
numerically differentiating the data pairs (−Vc, PTR) to obtain
as a function of PTR.
16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
plotting C(PTR) and reporting C(SBP), C(DBP), C(120), C(80), and pressure at Cmax.
17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
using a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure.
18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising estimating end-effects of oscillometric sensor apparatus on the oscillometric signal.
19. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
using a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site.
20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising: processing the calibrated oscillometric pressure signals within the computer system to generate one or more values each corresponding to one of the one or more vascular-compliance parameters.
21. A system for computerized calculation of one or more vascular-compliance parameters of a patient, the system comprising:
a first sensor that measures an oscillometric arterial signal;
a second sensor that measures a tonometric arterial signal;
a first analog-to-digital converter, operatively coupled to the first sensor, that generates a sequence of oscillometric values that are based on the oscillometric signal;
a second analog-to-digital converter, operatively coupled to the second sensor, that generates a sequence of tonometric values that are based on the tonometric signal;
a computer system, operatively coupled to the first and second analog-to-digital converters, wherein the computer system processes the first and second sequences of values and calibrates the sequence of tonometric values based on the one or more oscillometric parameters to generate one or more values each corresponding to one of the one or more vascular-compliance parameters.
22. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system processes the sequence of tonometric values Sr(t) to generate a calibrated tonometric pressure waveform Pr(t) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr)
wherein the additive correctionr and the multiplicative correctionr are calibration constants based at least in part on blood pressure parameters derived from the oscillometric signal, and Sr(t) is the tonometric signal value at time t.
23. The system of claim 22 , wherein the computer system calculates:
the multiplicative correctionr=(DBP−MBP)/(S r(t D)−S r(t M)), and the additive correctionr =a r MBP−S r(tM), wherein
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
24. The system of claim 22 , wherein the computer system calculates:
the multiplicative correctionr=(SBP−MBP)/(S r(t S)−S r(t M)), and the additive correctionr =a r MBP−S r(t M), wherein
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS.
25. The system of claim 22 , wherein the computer system calculates:
the multiplicative correctionr=(SBP−DBP)/(S r(t S)−S r(t D)), and the additive correctionr =a r DBP−S r(t D), wherein
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
26. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system processes the sequence of tonometric values Sr(t) to generate a calibrated tonometric pressure waveform Pr(t) as follows:
P r(t)=((S r(t)−b r)(1/a r))+p
where ar and br are calibration constants based at least in part on blood pressure parameters derived from the oscillometric signal, and p is a hydrostatic pressure head parameter constant.
27. The system of claim 26 , wherein the computer system calculates:
a r=(S r(t D)−S r(t M))/(DBP−MBP), and b r =S r(t M)−a r MBP, wherein
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
28. The system of claim 26 , wherein the computer system calculates:
a r=(S r(t s)−S r(t M))/(SBP−MBP), and b r =S r(t M)−a r MBP), wherein
MBP is oscillometric mean arterial blood pressure measured near time tM, and
SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS.
29. The system of claim 26 , wherein the computer system calculates:
a r=(S r(t S)−S r(t D))/(SBP−DBP), and
b r=Sr(t D)−a r DBP, wherein SBP is oscillometric systolic blood pressure measured near time tS, and
DBP is oscillometric diastolic blood pressure measured near time tD.
30. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system uses a mean blood pressure value and a diastolic blood pressure value from the oscillometric signal to calibrate the sequence of tonometric pressure values.
31. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system uses a mean blood pressure value and a systolic blood pressure value from the oscillometric signal to calibrate the sequence of tonometric pressure values.
32. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system uses a systolic blood pressure value and a diastolic blood pressure value from the oscillometric signal to calibrate the sequence of tonometric pressure values.
33. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system calculates a first compliance value based on the calibrated radial pressure waveform, estimates end-effects of the oscillometric signal; and corrects the first compliance value based on the estimated end effects.
34. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system generates a first compliance value from a compliance pressure curve.
35. The system of claim 22 , wherein the computer system:
uses time points tM and tS from the sequence of values based on the tonometric signal, and locates corresponding tonometric signal values shifted to the nearest peak (for tS), nadir (for tD), and calibrating using the formula
P r(t)=((S r(t)+additive correctionr)*multiplicative correctionr),
uses tonometric and oscillometric pressures, P and Pc, to compute transmural pressure PTR=P−Pc at each time point,
uses Pc and nc to compute Vc, and
numerically differentiates the data pairs (−Vc, PTR) to obtain
as a function of PTR.
36. The system of claim 35 , wherein the computer system plots C(PTR) and reporting C(SBP), C(DBP), C(120), C(80), and pressure at Cmax.
38. The system of claim 21 , wherein the first sensor senses the oscillometric signal from one side of a patient, the second sensor senses the tonometric signal from a contralateral arterial site, and the computer uses the oscillometric signal to calibrate tonometric pressure signals in the contralateral arterial site.
39. The system of claim 21 , wherein the computer system further estimates end-effects of oscillometric sensor apparatus on the oscillometric signal.
40. The method of claim 21 , wherein the computer system further uses a tonometric signal to calibrate oscillometric pressure signals in a contralateral arterial site.
41. A system for computerized calculation of a vascular compliance parameter of a patient, the system comprising:
a first sensor that measures an oscillometric signal of the patient;
a second sensor that measures a tonometric signal of the patient;
means for calibrating the tonometric signal based on the oscillometric signal and for calculating a value for the vascular-compliance parameter.
42. The system of claim 41 , wherein the means for calibrating further includes:
means for obtaining a time-correlated dual sequence of digital values that are based on the waveforms monitored by the first and second sensors; and
means for processing the input signals to convert the time-correlated dual sequence of digital values to an output signal corresponding to a value of the vascular-compliance parameter.
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