260 Pages
33 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
Design of Pulse Oximeters describes the hardware and software needed to make a pulse oximeter, and includes the equations, methods, and software required for them to function effectively. The book begins with a brief description of how oxygen is delivered to the tissue, historical methods for measuring oxygenation, and the invention of the pulse oximeter in the early 1980s. Subsequent chapters... Read more
Normal oxygen transport (S A Clark). Motivation of pulse oximetry (D J Sebald). Blood oxygen measurement (J Farmer). Light absorbance in pulse oximetry (O Wieben). Light-emitting diodes and their control (B W J Bourgeois). Photodetectors and amplifiers (J S Schowalter). Probes (M V S Reddy). Electronic instrument control (K S Paranjape). Signal processing algorithms (S Palreddy). Calibration (J S Schowalter). Accuracy and errors (S Tungjitkusolmun). User interface for a pulse oximeter (A Lozano-Nieto). Applications of pulse oximetry (J B Ruchala). Glossary. Index.
Biography
John G. Webster
"… a complete guide to understanding, using, and designing the PO … for biomedical engineers and for all those who need to know the technical workings of this instrument … provides complete coverage of the field, from basic principles and techniques to signal-processing algorithms and calibration … with an abundance of figures, tables, and equations, the book is easy to read and clear in understanding … particularly useful for graduate students, biomedical technicians as the essential reference .. the best book to date … ."
-Valentin Grimblatov, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, IEEE EMBS Magazine, May/June 1998
"… an excellent overview … a must for biomedical engineers and medical physicists … valuable contribution to clinical instrumentation and physiological measurement … worth buying."
-John Allen, Freeman Hospital, IFMBE News, May 1998
