MONITORING CONDITIONS OF A PATIENT'S URINARY SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A monitoring system for use in monitoring a condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system, the monitoring system comprising:
- (a) an acoustic assembly comprising at least one acoustic receiver adapted for continuously receiving acoustic signals during a patient'"'"'s urination and generating data indicative thereof; and
(b) a control unit in communication with said acoustic assembly, the control unit being configured and operable for analyzing said generated data indicative of the continuously received acoustic signals during a patient'"'"'s urination, obtaining a time variation of the acoustic signal during the urination and determining a corresponding spectral data of the acoustic signal, analyzing the spectral data and, upon detecting at least one first signal peak corresponding to a condition of turbulence in the urine flow, determining a relation between said first signal peak and a second signal peak corresponding to a condition of laminar urine flow, and based on said relation determining the condition of a patient'"'"'s low urinary system and generating output data indicative thereof.
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Abstract
A monitoring system and method are presented for use in monitoring a condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system. The monitoring system comprises an acoustic assembly comprising at least one acoustic receiver adapted for continuously receiving acoustic signals during a patient'"'"'s urination and generating data indicative thereof. The monitoring system also includes a control unit that is in communication with said acoustic assembly. The control unit is configured and operable for analyzing said generated data indicative of the continuously received acoustic signals during a patient'"'"'s urination, obtaining a time variation of the acoustic signal during the urination and determining a corresponding spectral data of the acoustic signal. The control unit further analyzes the spectral data and, upon detecting at least one first signal peak corresponding to a condition of turbulence in the urine flow, determining a relation between said first signal peak and a second signal peak corresponding to a condition of laminar urine flow. Based on said relation, the control unit determines the condition of a patient'"'"'s low urinary system and generating output data indicative thereof.
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24 Claims
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1. A monitoring system for use in monitoring a condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system, the monitoring system comprising:
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(a) an acoustic assembly comprising at least one acoustic receiver adapted for continuously receiving acoustic signals during a patient'"'"'s urination and generating data indicative thereof; and (b) a control unit in communication with said acoustic assembly, the control unit being configured and operable for analyzing said generated data indicative of the continuously received acoustic signals during a patient'"'"'s urination, obtaining a time variation of the acoustic signal during the urination and determining a corresponding spectral data of the acoustic signal, analyzing the spectral data and, upon detecting at least one first signal peak corresponding to a condition of turbulence in the urine flow, determining a relation between said first signal peak and a second signal peak corresponding to a condition of laminar urine flow, and based on said relation determining the condition of a patient'"'"'s low urinary system and generating output data indicative thereof. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for use in monitoring a condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system, the method comprising:
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(a) continuously detecting acoustic signals originated by urine flow during the patient'"'"'s urination, and generating data indicative thereof; (b) analyzing said data generated during the urination and determining spectral data indicative thereof; (c) analyzing the spectral data and, upon detecting at least one first signal peak corresponding to a condition of turbulence in the urine flow, determining a relation between said signal peak corresponding to the condition of turbulence in the urine flow and a second signal peak corresponding to a condition of laminar urine flow, and using said relation to determine the condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system and generate output data indicative thereof. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for use in monitoring a condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system, the method comprising:
- analyzing spectral data corresponding to acoustic signals originated by urine flow during the patient'"'"'s urination; and
upon detecting at least one first signal peak corresponding to a condition of turbulence in the urine flow, determining a relation between said first signal peak and a second signal peak corresponding to a condition of laminar urine flow; and
using said relation to determine the condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system and generate output data indicative thereof.
- analyzing spectral data corresponding to acoustic signals originated by urine flow during the patient'"'"'s urination; and
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24. A computer system adapted for receiving data indicative of a sequence of acoustic signals each corresponding to continuous measurement during a respective urination time, said computer system being configured and operable for processing said data to determine spectral data corresponding to each of the acoustic signals, analyzing the spectral data and, upon detecting at least one first signal peak in the acoustic signal corresponding to a condition of turbulence in the urine flow, determining a relation between said first signal peak and a second signal peak in said acoustic signal corresponding to a condition of laminar urine flow, and based on said relation generating output data indicative of a condition of a patient'"'"'s urinary system from which said acoustic signals have been originated.
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