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Study on Improvement of Blood Stagnation by Pulsed Magnetic Field

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 20, Number 2, 30 Jun 2015, Pages 114-119
Hee Jung Son (Department of Oriental Biomedical Engineering, Sangji University), Jun Sang Yoo (Department of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, Sangji University), Myeung Hee Lee (Department of Physics, Yonsei University), Do Gwen Hwang (Department of Oriental Biomedical Engineering, Sangji University), Hyun Sook Lee * (Department of Oriental Biomedical Engineering, Sangji University)
Abstract

This study explored the effect of pulsed magnetic field (PMF) stimulus on the improvement of blood stagnation by means of photoplethysmography (PPG). Our stimulus system was designed to generate PMF with a maximum intensity variation of 0.20 T at a transition time of 160 μs, with pulse intervals of 1 Hz. In order to quantitatively estimate vascular condition, indices such as blood vessel tension (BVT), stress power (SP), differential pulse wave index (DPI) and remained blood volume (RBV) were calculated from the second derivative of the PPG signal and power density spectrum (PDS). Our results showed that non-invasive PMF stimulus was effective in improving blood stagnation. Therefore, it may be concluded that appropriate PMF stimulus affects the blood circulatory system.

 

Keywords: pulsed magnetic field (PMF); photoplethysmography (PPG); blood stagnation
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2015.20.2.114
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