title: Development of an artificial vital sign generator for pulse oximeter.
abstract: This paper presents an artificial vital sign generator that enables medical trainees to measure SpO(2) and the pulse rate of a patient simulator using a pulse oximeter. The proposed system has a biological model that possesses a structure that is the inverse of a pulse oximeter probe, and it works using the inverse procedure to that of pulse oximetry. The SpO(2) generating function has been validated using two commercially available pulse oximeters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Control Engineering, Oyama National College of Technology, Tochigi 323-0806, Japan. ichimura@oyama-ct.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tomoyasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ichimura
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Endoh
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010092:Oximetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D055986:Vital Signs / Q000502:physiology*