Design and development of a cross-sectional area sensor via impedance measurement

• Main Author: Xie, Tu Qiang.
• Other Authors: Tjin, Swee Chuan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/19588
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The importance of the cardiac output as a measured parameter is that it can be used to evaluate the overall cardiac status in both critically ill patients and patients with suspected cardiovascular disease. Although there are several methods for determining the cardiac output, these methods do not a...