Intra-cardiac impedance (ICI) is one of the major determinants of success during internal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation(AF) and is consequently of significant importance in the development of more effective cardioversion therapies. In this study, the voltage and current waveform delivered during internal cardioversion of patients with persistent AF treated using a novel low-tilt rectilin...

Transmittance waveform charts the changes in light transmittance on standard coagulation assays, such as the prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT). Analysis and characterization of these data on photo-optical coagulation analysers provides additional qualitative and quantitative information to that obtained using the clotting time alone. The most thoroughly eval...

OBJECTIVE To establish through analysis of the radial pressure pulse waveform the dose dependent effects of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) on properties of different blood vessels. DESIGN Radial pulse waveform was measured in randomised order before, during a five hour application of a GTN patch delivering 0.104-0.625 mg/h, and for two hours after patch removal. The radial pressure waveform (Milla...

Objective: To establish through analysis of the radial pressure pulse waveform the dose dependent effects of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) on properties of different blood vessels. Design: Radial pulse waveform was measured in randomised order before, during a five hour application of a GTN patch delivering 0.104–0.625 mg/h, and for two hours after patch removal. The radial pressure waveform (Milla...

In this paper, the problem of target detection in phased-MIMO radars is considered and target detection performance of phased-MIMO radars is compared with MIMO and phased-array radars. Phased-MIMO radars combine advantages of the MIMO and phased-array radars. In these radars, the transmit array will be partitioned into a number of subarrays that are allowed to overlap and each subarray transmit...

We propose a novel technique to implement arbitrary pulse shaping of an ultrashort pulse by intensity-only modulation in the frequency domain. The intensity-only modulation is realized by nonuniformly spaced sampling in the frequency domain. By properly designing the sampling function, multiple pulses in the time domain will be generated with one of which being the desired waveform. The desired...

Crackles are short interrupted breath sounds usually associated with pulmonary disorders. According to present opinion, a crackle is generated when an abnormally closed airway opens during inspiration or closes at the end of expiration. The timing of crackles in breathing cycles can be assessed with phonopneumography, their duration with time-expanded waveform analysis, and their pitch with ana...