• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
• /
• v.24 no.4
• /
• pp.281-286
• /
• 2003

Blood Pressure is one of the most fundamental Parameters which reflects physical conditions medically and the blood pressure measurement system using oscillometric method is a Non-Invasive Blood Pressure measurement device by measuring arterial Pressure through a cuff. In this paper. we designed a inflatable wrist blood pressure system which measures blood Pressure during the stepping inflation in the wrist cuff. The hardware system consists of a main power unit, a bladder in cuff unit, signal detection units, signal Processing units. a wireless data transmission unit, and a data display unit. We evaluated the reliability of this system by comparing and analyzing systolic. diastolic blood Pressure, and heart rate with other commercial blood Pressure measurement devices. Characteristic ratio values used to determine systolic and diastolic blood Pressure using MAA(Maximum Amplitude Algorithm) were 0.436 and 0.671 respectively.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
• /
• v.10 no.1
• /
• pp.83-89
• /
• 2006

Recently, the seriousness of high blood pressure was appeared as the most frequent disease of a the whole sickness in the world. However, the treatment of this disease is uncertain and produces an adverse reaction of a medicine therapy. Also, the patients are burdened with a fee for medical treatment. Therefore, in this paper, we studied effectively and financially to execute the treatment of high blood pressure using the Chinese medicine theorem that is recently arousing the great interest of the people. The main theories in this paper are blood vessel theory and acupuncture, respectively. Especially, the composed circuit systems are classified the blood pressure depressor part and the meridian points discrimination part, respectively. The blood pressure depressor part is composed generally of low-frequency generation circuit, charging-discharging circuit, and micro-computer circuit. Finally, this research have the advantage of discrimination parts such as regular voltage generating circuit, stimulus circuit, amplifying circuit, and alarm circuit.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
• /
• v.20 no.5
• /
• pp.617-624
• /
• 1999

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
• /
• v.25 no.4
• /
• pp.243-251
• /
• 2004

This study was to quantitative analysis compare to dynamic characteristic change of the regional cerebral blood volume (rCBV) after development of cerebral fat embolism in cats using perfusion MR Imaging. Forty-four adult rats were used. Triolein (n = 15), oleic acid (n = 9) and linoleic acid (n = 11) were injected into the internal carotid artery using microcatheter through the transfemoral approach. Polyvinyl alcohol (Ivalon) (n = 9) was injected as a control group. Perfusion MR images were obtained at 30 minutes and 2 hours after embolization, based on T2 and diffusion-weighted images. The data was time-to-signal intensity curve and ΔR$_2$＊ curve were obtained continuously with the aid of home-maid image proc in.leased significantly at 2 hours compared with those of 30 minutes (P＜0.005). In conclusion, cerebral blood flow decreased in cerebral fat embolism immediately after embolization and recovered remarkably in time course. It is thought that clinically informations to dynamic characteristic change of the cerebral hemodynamics to the early finding in cerebral infarction by DWI and PWI

• The Korean Journal of Pain
• /
• v.10 no.1
• /
• pp.104-108
• /
• 1997

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension, a syndrome of low CSF pressure, occurs without preceding events such as lumbar puncture, back trauma, operative procedure or medical illness. The most characteristic symptom is an occipital or frontal headache which is aggrevated in the erect position and relieved in the supine position. This syndrome usually resolves spontaneously or with strict bed rest. When the headach persists or is incapacitating, more aggressive treatment may be necessary. Autologous epidural blood patch is highly effective in the management of spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Epidural blood produces an organized clot which effectively tamponade any dural CSF leak. The rapid relief of headache immediately after the infusion of blood occur by some other mechanism, such as an increase in subarachnoid pressure that is known to occur with infusion of fluid into the lumbar epidural space. We report three cases of spontaneous intracranial hypotension successfully treated with epidural blood patch.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2009.04a
• /
• pp.155-156
• /
• 2009

In this paper we present 3D image analysis of liver and blood vessels using MDCT. The purpose is to enhance the performance of clinician in assessing anatomical information of liver and blood vessels. The system consists of two parts: 3D image reconstruction and analysis of the 3D liver and blood vessel image. The central vein of the liver is the most important blood vessel for the liver transplantation. We will find the central vein's location and characteristic, and will scheme out a computer assistant liver transplantation planning. It will be an effective tool for interventional radiology, surgical planning, and quantitative diagnosis.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
• /
• v.46 no.3
• /
• pp.539-550
• /
• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find meaningful patient groups of disease using foreign patients data and analyze implemented test of the patient groups. Methods: The data was collected by foreign patients' EMR data of K university hospital. The author proposed tree-form patients' characteristic diagram through statistical methods that association rule, proportion test, clustering using prescription information and questionnaire information. Results: This study's analysis process was applied high blood data and diabetes data. Analysis showed other characteristic of meaningful patient groups in high blood and diabetes. In high blood, test implementation rate of patient group showed the differences. And in diabetes, test implementation rate of patient group and implemented test list showed differences. Conclusion: The result of this study can play a role as basic data that can be clinical testing standard in preventive aspect. Eventually, 5 dimensions of SERVQUAL will be improved by this study's process.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
• /
• v.9 no.3
• /
• pp.301-305
• /
• 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal thresholds of serum lipid level related to hypertension according to age in Korean adults. METHODS: In total, 564 adults who visited the health examine center in general hospital were included. The blood pressure and lipid profiles of low density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), triglyceride(TG) were measured. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were used to establish optimal thresholds between blood pressure and lipid profiles. RESULTS: The optimal TG cutoff value were 110.50(mg/dl) in the 18-39 and 81.50(mg/dl) in the 40-59 age group, and optimal cutoff value of LDL were 126.50(mg/dl) in the 40-59 age group and 111.00(mg/dl) in the 60 and over age group. There was a negative correlation between HDL and hypertension, a higher HDL decreased hypertension. The optimal cutoff value of HDL was 49.50(mg/dl) in the 18-39 age group. CONCLUSION: The thresholds of hypertension were lower in LDL and TG with aging. This result indicated that elderly people needs to concern more about their lipid profiles to maintain healthy cardiovascular function.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• /
• v.4 no.2
• /
• pp.67-71
• /
• 1970

Fourteen patients with typhoid fever were studied by scanning and clearance-rate measurements of subcritical dose colloidal radiogold($^{198}Au$). Mild to moderate enlargement of the liver and spleen was noted in 78.6 and 64.3 per cent of patients, respectively; and splenic and spinal bone-marrow uptake was seen in 78.6 and 57.1 per cent of cases, respectively. Typically, these scan changes occurred concomitantly (57.1%) and are considered to represent increased phagocytic activity of the RE cells which is characteristic of typhoid fever. The half clearance-time was significantly shortened during the first 10-day period of the illness indicating an increas in the hepatic blood in the early phase of typhoid infection. Hepatomegaly, splenomegaly and extrahepatic uptakes along with an accelerated (or later a normal) clearance time are characteristic of typhoid fever.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
• /
• v.30 no.2
• /
• pp.129-134
• /
• 2009

The ideal method which measures a blood vessel of senility and degree of arteriosclerosis is to measure compliance of arterial and condition of blood circulation at the periphery. In these days vascular stiffness have been assessed by analyzing PTT (pulse transit time) from ECG and PPG. PTT is that between toe and finger each subject estimated through ECG and PPG signals. Two parameters, which are related to PWV, were tested with the time delay between the finger and toe. PWV is a variation of quantity which is associated with vascular stiffness. These researches which use PTT and PWV don't consider the blood vessel characteristic of an individual. In this current research, we have used with the blood vessel characteristic of an individual. That is an assessment of vascular stiffness using the variation of quantity in PWV with the changes of position in the subject. PWV variation increased as functions of the subject's age. The increase of the PWV variation parameters with age is attributed to the direct decrease of the blood vessel compliance with different position. The quantity of variation estimated by experimental results is that old age's (75.78${\pm}$7.75) case is 113.68% and young age's (26.47${\pm}$2.04) case is 85.69%. We proved and presented about estimation of vascular stiffness of possibility by this result.