Method for processing signals, particularly for oximetric measurements on living human tissue
First Claim
1. A method for deriving output signals from spurious signals having a frequency lying in a first frequency range and n multiplexed information signals having a frequency lying in a second frequency range that is different from said first frequency range, said method comprising the steps of:
- passing said signals through a filter having an essentially blocking characteristic in said first frequency range and having an essentially transmitting characteristic in said second frequency range so as to produce a column matrix;
providing a first n2 matrix function representing the deviation of the frequency range from an ideal transmission characteristic;
deriving a second n2 matrix function inverted with respect to said first matrix function; and
multiplying said column matrix at the output of said filter with said second n2 matrix function to generate said output signals.
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Abstract
A method is used for processing signals, particularly for oximetric measurements on living human tissue. Spurious signals are suppressed with respect to information signals. The spurious signals have a frequency lying in a first frequency range, and the information signals have a frequency lying in a second frequency range being different from said first frequency range. The signals are conducted over a filter having essentially a blocking characteristic in said first frequency range and having essentially a transmission characteristic in said second frequency range. An output signal of the filter is further processed.
In order to eliminate distorting effects from the filter on the information signal, a first function is determined representing the deviation of the frequency response of the filter in said frequency range from an ideal transmission characteristic. A second function inverted with respect to said first function is generated. The output signal is weighted by the second function to generate a weighted output signal.
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29 Claims
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1. A method for deriving output signals from spurious signals having a frequency lying in a first frequency range and n multiplexed information signals having a frequency lying in a second frequency range that is different from said first frequency range, said method comprising the steps of:
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passing said signals through a filter having an essentially blocking characteristic in said first frequency range and having an essentially transmitting characteristic in said second frequency range so as to produce a column matrix; providing a first n2 matrix function representing the deviation of the frequency range from an ideal transmission characteristic; deriving a second n2 matrix function inverted with respect to said first matrix function; and multiplying said column matrix at the output of said filter with said second n2 matrix function to generate said output signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for deriving signals representing blood oxygen saturation comprising:
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transmitting successive series of n pulses of light of different wavelengths at a given pulse repetition frequency; producing electrical signals in response to the passage of said pulses of light through a body member or in response to their reflection from a body member; applying the electrical signals to a noise-removing filter, expressing the signals at the output of the filter as a first matrix having a column of n elements; multiplying said first matrix with a second matrix in n2 form having coefficients representing the deviations in the modified signals produced by the filter; the coefficients of said second matrix being selected such that they represent the values obtained by a matrix division of third and fourth matrices in n2 form; wherein the coefficients in the columns of said third matrix have been obtained, with the filter bypassed, from the responses to n pulse trains, each pulse train consisting of n pulses; and wherein the coefficients in the columns of said third matrix have been obtained, with the filter active, from the responses to n pulse trains, each pulse train consisting of n pulses. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29)
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