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Basic structure of the heart. RA is the right atrium, RV is the right ventricle; LA is
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Deoxygenated Oxygenated
blood blood
Upper body
Lung
Right Left
atrium atrium
Right Left
venticle venticle
Lower body
The simplified circulatory system. The blood is delivered from the right ventricle to the
lung. The oxygenated blood from the lung is then returned to the left atrium before being In the top figure, the electrocardiogram (ECG) initiates the cardiac cycle. The cardiac
sent throughout the body from the left ventricle. Deoxygenated blood from the body flows sounds are also shown. The bottom figure shows that ejection occurs when the pressure in
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back to the right atrium and the cycle repeats.
Atrial diastole
AV valves opened. • Ave = 0,5 (Syst + Dias)
Semilunar valves close. 0.4 seconds
Ventricular diastole
Ventricular filling. • Mean = 1/3 (Syst- Dias) + Dias
AV valves open.
Atrial systole
Semilunar valves closed. 0.1 seconds
Ventricular diastole
Ventricular filling.
AV valves closed.
• Syst 115 to 140mmHg
Atrial diastole
Ventricular systole
Semilunar valves open.
0.3 seconds • Dias 60 to 90 mmHg
Blood pumped into aorta
and pulmonary artery. • Mean 80 to 105 mmHg
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Blood Pressure Measurement (1) Blood Pressure Measurement
- Pressure Cuff Methods Brachial artery is the most common measurement site
Riva-Rocci Method
Korotkoff Method (1)
The occlusive cuff is inflated until the pressure above systolic pressure,
And then is slowly bled off (2-3 mmHg/s). When the systolic peaks are higher
than the occlusive pressure, the blood spurt under th cuff and causes a Korotkoff’s method
palpable pulse In the
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Korotkoff Method (2) Korotkoff Method (3)
• Cuff is inflated until cuff pressure exceeds systolic
pressure. Brachial artery is occluded below the cuff and
Korotkoff sounds undergo 5 phases:
no blood passes through it. • Phase I: initial ‘tapping” sounds (cuff
• Cuff pressure is slowly reduced at 2-3 mm Hg/s. pressure =systolic pressure)
When cuff pressure = systolic pressure, blood begins
passing through artery under cuff. Stethoscope picks up
• Phase II: sounds increase in intensity
korotkoff sounds. • Phase III: sounds at maximum intensity
• As cuff pressure drops below diastolic pressure • Phase IV: sounds become muffled (cuff
Korotkoff sounds disappear.
cuff
pressure = diastolic pressure)
occluded
blood vessel • Phase V: sounds disappear
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Oscillometry (2)
External Internal Cuff pressure
Pressure
Auto-zero sensor
valve Multiplexer
Cuff pressure and analog
BP cuff oscillations to digital
converter
Inflation
system
Deflate valve
Microcomputer
Dump with memory
valve and I/O
Over-
Pressure
switch
MAP SYS
HR DYS
Top: Cuff pressure with superimposed Korotkoff sounds, which appear between systolic Block diagram of the major components and subsystems of an
and diastolic pressures. Bottom: the oscillometric method detects when the amplified cuff oscillometric blood-pressure monitoring device, based on the Dinamap
pressure pulsations exceed about 30% of maximal pulsations. unit, I/O = input/output; MAP = mean arterial pressure; HR = heart rate;
SYS= systolic pressure; DYS = diastolic pressure. From Ramsey M III.
From Geddes, L. A. Cardiovascular devices and their applications. New York: Wiley. 1984.8.9.219
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Direct measurement
Monit. 1911, 7, 56-67.
Tonometry Tonometry
Linear array of pressure sensors is pressed
• A tonometry test measures the pressure inside against a superficial artery, which is
your eye, which is called intraocular pressure supported from below by a bone (radial artery).
(IOP). This test is used to check for glaucoma, A sensor array is used here, because at
least one of the pressure sensors must lay
an eye disease that can cause blindness by directly above the artery
damaging the nerve in the back of the eye (optic
When the blood vessel is partly collapsed,
nerve). the surrounding pressure equals the artery
pressure.
• Arterial tonometry Æ using linear of pressure
array sensor Æ pressed against radial artery so The pressure is increased continuously and
the measurements are made when the
that at least one sensor is directly over the artery is half collapsed
lumen. The hold-down pressure varies between
individuals and therefore a ’calibration’ must
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DISADVANTAGES
-) Relatively high cost
-) The wrist movement and tendons result
in measurement inaccuracies
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Blood Pressure Direct Blood Pressure Direct
Measurement Measurement
• Arterial & venous blood pressure can be • Sterile saline filled catheter is inserted into blood
measured by inserting a catheter into the blood stream
vessel and maneuvering it until the end is at the • The pressure at the tip of catheter is transmitted
site at which the blood pressure is to be to an external pressure transducer
measured • Some blood vessel :
• Catheter can be inserted into the artery inside a Artery: carotid, brachial, femoral
needle Veins : femoral, brachial, subcalian, internal
• The alternative method Æ catheter tip sensor jugulas,
CVP Æ central venous pressure
• Very invasive procedure
RAP Æ right atrium pressure
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Indicator Dilution with Continuous
Blood Flow Measurement
Injection
• Measures flow / cardiac output averaged over several heart beats
How to make blood flow / volume
measurements? Standard flow meters, Change in [] due to dm dt
continuously added ΔC =
such as turbine flow meters, obviously indicator m to volume V dV dt
cannot be used!
– Indicator-dilution method: cont./rapid injection, • Fick’s technique: the amount of a substance (O2) taken up by an
dye dilution, thermodilution organ / whole body per unit time is equal to the arterial level of O2
minus the venous level of O2 times the blood flow Î
– Electromagnetic flowmeters
dV dm dt
– Ultrasonic flowmeters / Doppler flowmeters F= =
– Plethysmography: Chamber / electric dt ΔC
Blood flow, liters/min Consumption of O2 (mL/min)
impedance / photoplethysmography dm dt
(cardiac output)
=
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concentration of O2 (mL/L of blood)
m
• How is dm/dt (O2 consumption) measured? F= t
• Where and how would we measure Ca and Cv? (Exercise) ∫ C (t )dt
0
After the bolus is injected at time A, there is a transportation delay before the
concentration begins rising at time B. After the peak is passed, the curve enters an
exponential decay region between C and D, which would continue decaying alone the dotted
curve to t1 if there were no recirculation. However, recirculation causes a second peak at E
before the indicator becomes thoroughly mixed in the blood at F. The dashed curve indicates
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Dye Dilution Thermodilution
• In dye-dilution, a commonly used dye is indocyanine green
(cardiogreen), which satisfies the following • The indicator is cold – saline, injected into
– Inert
– Safe
the right atrium using a catheter
– Measurable though spectrometry • Temperature change in the blood is
– Economical
– Absorption peak is 805 nm, a wavelength at which absorption of
measured in the pulmonary artery using a
blood is independent of oxygenation thermistor
– 50%of the dye is excreted by the kidneys in 10 minutes, so
repeat measurements is possible • The temperature change is inversely
proportional to the amount of blood flowing
through the pulmonary artery
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Electromagnetic
Measuring Cardiac Output
Flowmeters
• Based on Faraday’s law of induction that a conductor that
moves through a uniform magnetic field, or a stationary
conductor placed in a varying magnetic field generates emf on
the conductor:
When blood flows in the vessel with
velocity u and passes through the
magnetic field B, the induced emf e
measured at the electrodes is.
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Several methods of measuring cardiac output In the Fick method, the indicator is O2; consumption is
For uniform B and uniform velocity profile u,
measured by a spirometer. The arterial-venous concentration difference is measure by drawing simples
the induced emf is e=BLu. Flow can be obtained
through catheters placed in an artery and in the pulmonary artery. In the dye-dilution method, dye is
by multiplying the blood velocity u with the
injected into the pulmonary artery and samples are taken from an artery. In the thermodilution method,
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cold saline is injected into the right atrium and temperature is measured in the pulmonary artery.
Electromagnetic
Flowmeter Probes
+ • Comes in 1 mm increments for
1 ~ 24 mm diameter blood vessels
• Individual probes cost $500 each
B • Made to fit snuggly to the vessel
B
l during diastole
N S
e • Only used with arteries, not veins,
as collapsed veins during diastole
lose contact with the electrodes
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u • Needless to say, this is an
e = Blu INVASIVE measurement!!!
• A major advantage is that it can
measure instantaneous blood
flow, not just average flow
Figure 8.16 Principle of an electromagnetic flowmeter.
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Ultrasonic Flowmeters Near / Far Fields
• Due to finite diameters, UT transducers produce diffraction
• Based on the principle of measuring the time it takes for an patterns, just like an aperture does in optics.
acoustic wave launched from a transducer to bounce off red • This creates near and far fields of the UT transducer, in which
blood cells and reflect back to the receiver. the acoustic wave exhibit different properties
• All UT transducers, whether used for flowmeter or other – The near field extends about dnf=D2/4λ, where D is the
applications, invariably consists of a piezoelectric material, transducer diameter and λ is the wavelength. During this region,
which generates an acoustic (mechanical) wave when excited the beam is mostly cylindrical (with little spreading), however
with nonuniform intensity.
by an electrical force (the converse is also true)
– In the far field, the beam diverges with an angle sinθ=1.2 λ/D,
• UT transducers are typically used with a gel that fills the air but the intensity uniformly attenuates proportional to the square
gaps between the transducer and the object examined of the distance from the transducer
Oscillator
Scan head
UT Flowmeters
Image plane Skin surface
Zero-crossing
detector / LPF
Blood vessel
Doppler
angle
Computer Determine
direction
RF AF F/V
Detector amplifier
amplifier converter
Figure 8.17 Ultrasonic flowmeter. The sensor at the scan head transmits the signal from the
oscillator and receives the reflected wave from the blood cells. The RF (radio frequency)
amplifier amplifies the received signal and the carrier frequency, then AF (audio frequency) High acoustic
impedance material
signal is produced by a detector.
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5,505,204.
Transit Time
Transit time flowmeters
Flowmeters
Effective velocity of sound in blood: velocity of sound (c) +
velocity of flow of blood averaged along the path of the ultrasound (û)
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Doppler Measurements (3) Doppler
Ultrasound Doppler Flowmeters
The ultrasound Doppler device can be either a continuous wave or a pulsed • The Doppler effect describes the change in the frequency of a
Doppler
received signal , with respect to that of the transmitted signal,
when it is bounced off of a moving object.
CW DOPPLER PULSED DOPPLER
– Doppler frequency shift
No minimum range Accuracy Source signal Speed of blood flow
frequency (~150 cm/s)
Directional Doppler
• Directional Doppler borrows the quadrature phase detector
technique from radar in determining the speed and direction
of an aircraft.
• Two carrier signals at 90º phase shift are used instead of a
single carrier. The +/- phase difference between these
carriers after the signal is bounced off of the blood cells
indicate the direction, whereas the change in frequency
indicate the flowrate
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Directional Doppler
Plethysmography
in
Blood Flow Measurements
(a) Quadrature-phase detector. Sine and cosine signals at the carrier frequency are summed with the RF
output before detection. The output C from the cosine channel then leads (or lags) the output S from the sine
channel if the flow is away from (or toward) the transducer. (b) Logic circuits route one-shot pulses through
the top (or bottom) ANDARL gate-when the- flow
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If only a segment of limb is measured, there is a need for arterial occlusion Chamber plethysmograph is the only accurate non-invasive way to
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Radioisotopes
A rapidly diffusing, inert radioisotope of lipid-soluble gas (133 Xe or 85 Kr) is
injected into the tissue or passively diffused
Other Methods
in
Blood Flow Measurements
The elimination of the radioisotope from microcirculatory bed is related to
the blood flow:
C (t ) = C 0 exp(− kt )
k = ln 2 / t1 / 2
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Summary (2)
BLOOD FLOW
Usually more invasive methods are used than with blood
pressure measurements
Used for understanding physiological processes (e.g. medicine
dissolution). Also used for locating clots in arteries
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