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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
Robert Stoughton, Boulder, CO (US);
Paul S. Addison, Edinburgh, GB;
James N. Watson, Dunfermline, GB;
Robert Stoughton, Boulder, CO (US);
Paul S. Addison, Edinburgh, GB;
James N. Watson, Dunfermline, GB;
Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland, Mervue, Galway, IE;
Abstract
A method and system for automatically gating an imaging device is disclosed. Physiological process information of a patient may be derived from a plethysmographic signal, for example, by analyzing the plethysmographic signal transformed by a continuous wavelet transform. Other techniques for deriving physiological process information of a patient include, for example, analyzing a scalogram derived from the continuous wavelet transform. The physiological process information may be used to automatically gate imaging data acquired from an imaging device in order to synchronize the imaging data with the physiological process information.