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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
Published on: December 10, 2014
Assessment of dynamic changes in cerebral autoregulation
Frank Noack1, Melanie Christ, Sven-Axel May
1Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. frank.noack@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Cerebral autoregulation (CA) monitoring can be improved using dynamic analysis. Moving cross-correlation of arterial blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity offers a way to continuously assess CA.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Physiology
- Biomedical Engineering
Background:
- Cerebral autoregulation (CA) maintains stable cerebral blood flow despite blood pressure fluctuations.
- Optimizing patient treatment requires effective CA monitoring.
- Assessing dynamic CA is complex, unlike static methods.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore methods for continuous cerebral autoregulation monitoring.
- To evaluate the suitability of dynamic CA assessment techniques.
Main Methods:
- Moving cross-correlation analysis of slow waves in arterial blood pressure (ABP) and cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV).
- Calculation of an "instantaneous transfer function" using the Wigner-Ville distribution for time-frequency analysis.
Main Results:
- Moving cross-correlation analysis appears suitable for quasi-continuous CA monitoring.
- The Wigner-Ville distribution provides a time-frequency resolution compromise for dynamic CA assessment.
Conclusions:
- Dynamic CA monitoring is feasible using advanced signal processing techniques.
- Continuous CA assessment can potentially optimize patient treatment strategies.
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