"Photoplethysmography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Plethysmographic determination in which the intensity of light reflected from the skin surface and the red cells below is measured to determine the blood volume of the respective area. There are two types, transmission and reflectance.
| Descriptor ID |
D017156
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.370.610.600
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| Concept/Terms |
Photoplethysmography- Photoplethysmography
- Photoplethysmographies
- Rheography, Light Reflection
- Light Reflection Rheographies
- Rheographies, Light Reflection
- Light Reflection Rheography
- Photoreflexometry
- Photoreflexometries
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Photoplethysmography" by people in Profiles.
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Photoplethysmography-new applications for an old technology: a sleep technology review. J Clin Sleep Med. 2023 01 01; 19(1):189-195.
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Automatic classification of apnea/hypopnea events through sleep/wake states and severity of SDB from a pulse oximeter. Physiol Meas. 2015 Sep; 36(9):2009-25.
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Pulse transit time measured by photoplethysmography improves the accuracy of heart rate as a surrogate measure of cardiac output, stroke volume and oxygen uptake in response to graded exercise. Physiol Meas. 2015 May; 36(5):911-24.
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A novel handheld device for use in remote patient monitoring of heart failure patients--design and preliminary validation on healthy subjects. J Med Syst. 2012 Apr; 36(2):653-9.