A new noninvasive technique for cardiac pressure measurement: resonant scattering of ultrasound from bubbles. Academic Article

abstract

• We suggest and analyze a new technique for making noninvasive cardiac measurements. The technique involves measurement of the spectrum of ultrasound scattered from small bubbles injected into the circulatory system as they pass through the heart. We show that the resonant frequency observed in these spectra will vary as the cardiac pressure changes. Thus the variations of the resonance can be calibrated to give the pressure excursions in a cardiac chamber. Preliminary bench tests of the method are described which show the predicted shift with pressure of the resonance frequency of bubbles in water. 1977, IEEE. All rights reserved.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• IEEE Trans Biomed Eng

altmetric score

• 9

author list (cited authors)

• Fairbank, W. M., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 81

complete list of authors

• Fairbank, WM||Scully, MO

publication date

• March 1977

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering  Journal

keywords

• Electrocardiography
• Heart
• Mathematics
• Methods
• Physical Phenomena
• Physics
• Pressure
• Transducers
• Ultrasonography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/TBME.1977.326112

start page

• 107

end page

• 110

volume

• 24

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tbme.1977.326112