Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Devices
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Abstract

Perspective Questions of Mechanopulsography

Yavelov IS, Stepanyan IV, Rochagov AV, Fedyanin VI and Zholobov AV

Among the methods based on the diagnosis of the pulse, the most informative method is sphymography, where the sensors measure mechanical fluctuations of the arterial wall. This allows non-invasive methods to obtain undistorted high-resolution pulse waves and to perform a mathematical analysis of their contours (high resolution sphygmography [1,2]). It should be noted that the key to the development of this direction is the creation of a perfect pulse wave sensor, in which the positioning problem is partially or completely overcome. To date, all attempts by researchers in this direction have not led to the emergence of a solution that could be considered practically useful. Some progress has been made in the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where more than 25 years work is under way on mechanopulseography using fiber-optic probe transducers.