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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yukio Nonaka, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 25/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/053 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0536 (2013.01); A61B 5/004 (2013.01); A61B 5/0809 (2013.01); A61B 5/6823 (2013.01); A61B 5/6832 (2013.01); A61B 5/743 (2013.01); A61B 5/7485 (2013.01); A61B 5/0037 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0214 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01); A61B 2576/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electrical impedance measuring apparatus includes: a plurality of electrodes adhered to a periphery of a chest; a potential measurer configured to perform a process of applying a current to any ones of the electrodes, and measuring potentials by means of other electrodes; an impedance acquirer, based on the applied current and the potentials measured by the potential measurer, configured to obtain an impedance of each of meshes, a chest section divided into the meshes; a histogram producer configured to set, in the chest section, at least one ROI including from a ventral side to a dorsal side, and configured to obtain a histogram of an impedance distribution in the ROI; and a producer configured to produce a color impedance distribution map in which amplitudes of the histogram are replaced with corresponding colors.


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