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- Patent Title: Finger arterial elasticity measuring program, finger arterial elasticity measuring device and finger arterial elasticity mesauring method
- Patent Title (中): 手指动脉弹性测量程序,手指动脉弹性测量装置和手指动脉弹性测量方法
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Application No.: US12449816Application Date: 2008-02-12
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Publication No.: US08216152B2Publication Date: 2012-07-10
- Inventor: Gohichi Tanaka , Yukihiro Sawada
- Applicant: Gohichi Tanaka , Yukihiro Sawada
- Applicant Address: JP Hokkaido
- Assignee: Sapporo Medical University
- Current Assignee: Sapporo Medical University
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hokkaido
- Agency: DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Priority: JP2007-048652 20070228
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/052232 WO 20080212
- International Announcement: WO2008/105229 WO 20080904
- Main IPC: A61B5/02
- IPC: A61B5/02

Abstract:
PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED: A finger arterial elasticity measuring program, a finger arterial elasticity measuring device and a finger arterial elasticity measuring method are provided for making it possible to measure an elasticity index of a finger artery in accordance with a pulse wave of a finger artery without measuring a blood pressure in evaluating the elasticity of the finger artery related to the degree of arterial sclerosis in an easy and least expensive manner.MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS: A computer functioning by a finger arterial elasticity measuring program includes a pulse wave data memory unit 42, a cuff pressure data memory unit 43, a normalized pulse volume (NPV) calculating unit 52 for dividing an amplitude (ΔI) of an alternate component of a pulse wave by an average value of direct components (I) to calculate NPV, a relative cuff pressure (Pr) calculating unit 53 for calculating a difference between a cuff pressure at the maximum amplitude of the pulse wave and each cuff pressure as Pr, an FEI calculating unit 54 for calculating a linear regression slope (n) of the following expression (1) as an elasticity index of a finger artery: ln(NPV)=ln(bn)−n·Pr . . . (1) where b is a constant.
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