<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The objective of this paper was to improve the well established in clinical practice Marmarou model for intracranial volume-pressure compensation by adding the pulsatile components. It was demonstrated that complicated pulsation and growth in intracranial pressure during infusion test could be successfully modeled by the relatively simple analytical expression derived in this paper. The CSF dynamics were tested in 25 patients with clinical symptoms of hydrocephalus. Basing on the frequency spectrum of the patient's baseline pressure and identified parameters of CSF dynamic, for each patient an "ideal" infusion test curve free from artefacts and slow waves was simulated. The degree of correlation between simulated and real curves obtained from clinical observations gave insight into the adequacy of assumptions of Marmarou model. The proposed method of infusion tests analysis designates more exactly the value of the reference pressure, which is usually treated as a secondary and of uncertain significance. The properly identified value of the reference pressure decides on the degree of pulsation amplitude growth during IT, as well as on the value of elastance coefficient. The artificially generated tests with various pulsation components were also applied to examine the correctness of the used algorithm of identification of the original Marmarou model parameters.</p></abstract>

The objective of this paper was to improve the well established in clinical practice Marmarou model for intracranial volume-pressure compensation by adding the pulsatile components. It was demonstrated that complicated pulsation and growth in intracranial pressure during infusion test could be successfully modeled by the relatively simple analytical expression derived in this paper. The CSF dynamics were tested in 25 patients with clinical symptoms of hydrocephalus. Basing on the frequency spectrum of the patient's baseline pressure and identified parameters of CSF dynamic, for each patient an "ideal" infusion test curve free from artefacts and slow waves was simulated. The degree of correlation between simulated and real curves obtained from clinical observations gave insight into the adequacy of assumptions of Marmarou model. The proposed method of infusion tests analysis designates more exactly the value of the reference pressure, which is usually treated as a secondary and of uncertain significance. The properly identified value of the reference pressure decides on the degree of pulsation amplitude growth during IT, as well as on the value of elastance coefficient. The artificially generated tests with various pulsation components were also applied to examine the correctness of the used algorithm of identification of the original Marmarou model parameters.

Mathematical Modelling of the Infusion Test

Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Warsaw University of Technology, A. Boboli 8, 02-525 Warsaw, Poland

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering

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The objective of this paper was to improve the well established in clinical practice Marmarou model for intracranial volume-pressure compensation by adding the...

Mathematical Modelling of the Infusion Test

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2008

Páginas: 33 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-007-0004-7

Palabras clave
infusion test, pulsatile and respiratory waves, mathematical modeling, hydrocephalus

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Mathematical Modelling of the Infusion Test

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2008

Páginas: 33 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-007-0004-7

Palabras claveinfusion test, pulsatile and respiratory waves, mathematical modeling, hydrocephalus

This content is open access.

Palabras clave
infusion test, pulsatile and respiratory waves, mathematical modeling, hydrocephalus