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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Canon U.s.a. Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Inventor:
Haruo Nakaji, Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
Canon U.S.A., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/053 (2006.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/14551 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 5/0261 (2013.01); A61B 5/053 (2013.01); A61B 5/4881 (2013.01); A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); A61B 5/725 (2013.01); A61B 5/7207 (2013.01); A61B 5/7214 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system comprises of a pulse oximeter and diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) apparatus to perform pulse oximetry measurements. To calculate oxygen saturation, the pulse oximeter utilizes a pulse wave which is measured by an apparatus other than the pulse oximeter itself. In one embodiment, the different apparatus mentioned above is the diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) apparatus.