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Vibration technique for indirect measurement of diastolic arterial pressure in human fingers

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Diastolic pressure Pd was indirectly measured by vibrating a finger artery with a 10 Hz sinusoidal pressure variation during a gradual increase (or decrease) in occlusive cuff pressure Pc. Pulsatile arterial volume changes on which sinusoidal variations are superimposed were detected by a transmitted infra-red photoelectric plethysmograph (TIPP). It is known that volume change in an artery shows a maximum amplitude at the transmural pressure Pt level equal to 0 mm Hg due to the nonlinear viscoelastic properties of the arterial wall. For the same reason, the amplitude of the sinusoidal volume variation reached its maximum at the end-diastolic phase, when Pc was controlled to be exactly equal to Pd. The indirect Pd values determined from Pc were compared with those simultaneously measured by a direct method in rabbit forelegs and by the volume-compensation method in human fingers. Using the principle of the volume oscillometric method systolic and mean pressures were also determined by this system.

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  1. Department of Physiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 2-20, Shinkawa 6 chome, Mitaka-shi, 182, Tokyo, Japan

    H. Shimazu, H. Ito, A. Kawarada & H. Kobayashi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Waseda University, 6-1 Nishiwaseda 1-chome, Shinjuku-ku, 160, Tokyo, Japan

    A. Hiraiwa

  3. The Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University, Nishi 6 chome, Kita 12 jyo, Kita-ku, Sapporo-shi 060, Hokkaido, Japan

    K. Yamakoshi

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Shimazu, H., Ito, H., Kawarada, A. et al. Vibration technique for indirect measurement of diastolic arterial pressure in human fingers. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 27, 130–136 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446221

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