introduction blood pressure (bp) is one of the important vital signs that need to be monitored for personal healthcare. arterial blood pressure is estimated from pulse transit time (ptt). this study uses two pulse sensors to get ptt. the aim of this study was to construct an optical system and to monitor blood pressure continuously and without cuff in people with different ages. materials and m...

Adenotonsillar hypertrophy is a major cause of obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS) in childhood. Increased respiratory effort associated with OSAS is accompanied by an increase in pulse transit time (PTT) but also mandibular movements (MMs) amplify with increased upper airway resistance. We compared dynamic changes in PTT and MMs using a magnetic distance sensor during polysomnography (PSG) in a pre...

This paper proposes iPTT, a peer-to-peer Push-toTalk (PTT) service for Voice over IP (VoIP). In iPTT, a distributed and mobile-operator independent network architecture is presented to accelerate the deployment of the PTT service. Based on the proposed architecture, the message flows for call establishment/teardown are designed to show the feasibility of iPTT. Also, we propose two mechanisms fo...

In this paper, a finite element (FE) modeling is used to model effects of the arterial stiffness on the different signal patterns of the pulse transit time (PTT). Several different breathing patterns of the three subjects are measured with PTT signal and corresponding finite element model of the straight elastic artery is applied. The computational fluid-structure model provides arterial elasti...

Gold nanoparticle (AuNPs)-mediated photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted increasing attention both in laboratory research and clinical applications. Due to its easily-tuned properties of irradiation light inside-out hyperthermia ability, it demonstrated clear advantages cancer over conventional thermal ablation. Despite this great advancement, the therapeutic efficacy AuNPs mediated PTT tumo...

BACKGROUND The association between diabetes and abnormalities in autonomic function is well-known, but it is not clear if this association can be extended to subjects with prediabetic impaired glucose metabolism (IGM). Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which commonly occurs in this population, is often overlooked. We sought to determine how autonomic function, monitored in an overnight sleep st...

Multifunctional theranostic platforms capable of concurrent near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging and phototherapies are strongly desired for cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, the integration of separate imaging and therapeutic components into nanocarriers results in complex theranostic systems with limited translational potential. A single agent-based theranostic nanoplatform, theref...

امروزه در مبحث محاسبات رآکتورهای هسته‌ای مثل فرسایش و مدیریت سوخت، تحلیل گذرا بازسازی توان میله‌های به دنبال روش‌هایی جهت استفاده کدهای هستند که علاوه بر دقت قابل‌قبول از هزینه زمان بهینه‌ای برخوردار باشند. این پژوهش با گسسته‌سازی معادله پخش نوترون روش نودال بسط شار جریان ‌متوسط مرتبه بالا نشان داده می‌شود روش‌ بهینه قابل‌قبولی بهره می‌برد. مستقیم الحاقی نوترون، برای هندسه مربعی دوبعدی دو گروه ...