Monitoring heart and lung function using in-line laserspectroscopy

Thesis

Current techniques of assessing respiratory health and cardiovascular function have inherent limitations. Commonly used methods of assessing lung function are generally insensitive to early stage respiratory disease, while techniques for evaluating cardiac output are highly invasive. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate new techniques for assessing respiratory function and cardiac output that exploit the information encoded within breathing profiles, and which can address these shortco...

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Authors: Smith, NMJ

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: respiratory physiology; laser spectroscopy
• Subjects: Respiratory gas monitoring