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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2006
Steven E. Pav, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven E. Pav, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of estimating a blood flow characteristic in a patient. Present embodiments include providing a first probability distribution for an actual value of a function of the blood flow characteristic based on a previous value of the function, providing a second probability distribution describing a probability that observations of the blood flow characteristic were made given that the blood flow characteristic took a certain value, and combining the first and second probability distributions to facilitate selection of a most likely value of the function for posting as the value of the estimated blood flow characteristic.