Authors:
Zhou Kan-Heng
1
;
Qian Peng
2
;
Xia Chun-Ming
1
and
Wang Yi-Qin
2
Affiliations:
1
East China University of Science and Technology, China
;
2
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Keyword(s):
Three-Channel, Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors, Best Pulse Taking Force, Three Regions and Nine Pulse-Takings, Automatic Self-Pressurized Control.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Equipment
;
Biomedical Instrumentation
;
Biomedical Instruments and Devices
;
Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis
Abstract:
A new three-channel self-pressurized pulse acquisition system based on the principle of wrist pulse
diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was introduced in this paper, including the hardware and
the software design of this acquisition system. This acquisition system can not only get three-channel wrist
pulse waveforms under the best pulse taking force through the automatic pressure control module composed
of stepper motors and ball screw pairs, but also simulate the process of the three regions and nine pulsetakings
wrist pulse diagnosis in TCM. Besides, this acquisition system also can real-timely display and store
three-channel wrist pulse waveforms. It can been seen that this wrist pulse acquisition system solved the
problem that only the pulse waveforms in Guan region of the wrist can be detected, which does most of the
existent pulse acquisition systems have. The system provided a user-friendly flexible sample collection
platform, laid the foundation for analyzing the
multi-channel wrist pulse waveforms and pushed forward the
development of the standardization of wrist pulse waveforms and the objectification of wrist pulse diagnosis
in TCM.
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