PubMed · 5097938
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D Cardus. 1971. Computerized unit for a cardiac rehabilitation program.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5097938/
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BACKGROUND: The educational role of surgical video presentations should be optimized by linking surgical images to graphic evaluation of indications, techniques, and results. We describe a PC-based video production system for personal editing of surgical tapes, according to the objectives of each presentation. METHODS: The hardware requirement is a personal computer (100 MHz processor, 1-Gb hard disk, 16 Mb RAM) with a PC-to-TV/video transfer card plugged into a slot. Computer-generated numerical data, texts, and graphics are transformed into analog signals displayed on TV/video. A Genlock interface (a special interface card) synchronizes digital and analog signals, to overlay surgical images to electronic illustrations. The presentation is stored as digital information or recorded on a tape. RESULTS: The proliferation of multimedia tools is leading us to adapt presentations to the objectives of lectures and to integrate conceptual analyses with dynamic image-based information. We describe a system that handles both digital and analog signals, production being recorded on a tape. Movies may be managed in a digital environment, with either an "on-line" or "off-line" approach. System requirements are high, but handling a single device optimizes editing without incurring such complexity that management becomes impractical to surgeons. CONCLUSIONS: Our experience suggests that computerized editing allows linking surgical scientific and didactic messages on a single communication medium, either a videotape or a CD-ROM.
To automate analysis of left ventricular pressure-volume data, we used LabVIEW to create applications that digitize and display data recorded from conductance and manometric catheters. Applications separate data into cardiac cycles, calculate parallel conductance, and calculate indices of left ventricular function, including end-systolic elastance, preload-recruitable stroke work, stroke volume, ejection fraction, stroke work, maximum and minimum derivative of ventricular pressure, heart rate, indices of relaxation, peak filling rate, and ventricular chamber stiffness. Pressure-volume loops can be graphically displayed. These analyses are exported to a text-file. These applications have simplified and automated the process of evaluating ventricular function.
The problem of obtaining the retinal source distribution that generates the electroretinogram (ERG) from measured skin potentials is addressed. A realistic three-dimensional (3-D) volume conductor model of the head is constructed from magnetic resonance image (MRI) data sets. The skin potential distribution generated in this model by a dipole layer source at the retina is computed by using the boundary element method (BEM). The influence of the various compartments of the complete model on the results was investigated, and a simplified model was defined. An inverse procedure for estimating the source distribution at the retina from ERG's obtained from skin electrodes was developed. The procedure was tested on simulated potentials. A fair correspondence between the original and estimated source distribution was found. Furthermore, the ERG's measured at seven skin electrodes were used to estimate the source distribution at the retina. The ERG potential waveform at an additional skin electrode was computed from this source distribution and compared to the measured potential at this electrode. Again a fair correspondence was obtained. It is concluded that the methods may become a useful tool for clinical applications, i.e., for the assessment of localized defects in retinal function.