Student Number :9900127Y -
MSc (Eng) dissertation -
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment / Arterial pulse wave analysis studies the wave shape of the blood pressure pulse.
The pulse wave provides more information than the extreme systolic and dia-
stolic pressures, measured with a cuff sphygmomanometer. The aim of the
research is to investigate the design issues in a pulse wave analysis system,
and to compare these to a commercially available system. The system was
compared and validated by measuring the pulse wave at the radial artery
(wrist) using the non-invasive technique of arterial tonometry. The design
conformed to the IEC-601 safety standard to ensure patient safety. The data
was compared against the data from the commercial system and analysis was
performed in the time and frequency domain. The performance of the design
suggests that, in some respects, the design was comparable to the commer-
cial system, however, a number of performance characteristics fell short of the
commercial system. Suggestions have been made to address these problems in
further research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1824 |
| Date | 17 November 2006 |
| Creators | Salter, Geoffrey Douglas |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1928107 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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