REDUCING CROSS-TALK IN A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

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APP PUB NO 20100087714A1
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12245459

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According to embodiments, techniques for determining one or more physiological characteristics in a measurement system which may include cross-talk are disclosed. A sensor or probe may be used to generate two or more a plethysmograph or photoplethysmograph (PPG) signals from a patient. The obtained signals may include an infrared signal and a red signal, and may be subject to an additional measurement noise. The obtained signal may be combined to form a detected signal. The detected signal may be filtered to partially or fully remove noise. The filtered detected signal may be demodulated to separate the red signal and the infrared signal. The recovered red and infrared signals may be processed by additional filters to partially or fully remove cross-talk. The processed red and infrared signals may then be used to determine physiological characteristics of a patient such as a pulse rate, a respiration rate, and a blood oxygen saturation level using the wavelet transform and/or scalogram of at least one of the processed red and infrared signals. The partial or full removal of cross-talk from the red signal and infrared signal may result in a more reliable determination of physiological characteristics than would be possible in a system in which cross-talk was not removed.

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NELLCOR PURITAN BENNETT IRELANDMICHAEL COLLINS ROAD MERVUE GALWAY

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Addison, Paul Stanley Edinburgh, GB 177 3702
Watson, James Dunfermline, GB 113 2745

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