Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis

Pulse diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine is said to be able to detect not only illness but also decline of health in the patients from tactile sense of the pulse in the radial artery at the wrists. This diagnosis, however, is not supported by concrete scientific evidence. The authors have pro...

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Main Authors: Atsushi SHIRAI, Tsutomu NAKANISHI, Toshiyuki HAYASE
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Language:English
Published: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011-11-01
Series:Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jbse/6/4/6_4_330/_pdf/-char/en
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author Atsushi SHIRAI
Tsutomu NAKANISHI
Toshiyuki HAYASE
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Toshiyuki HAYASE
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description Pulse diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine is said to be able to detect not only illness but also decline of health in the patients from tactile sense of the pulse in the radial artery at the wrists. This diagnosis, however, is not supported by concrete scientific evidence. The authors have proposed a non-linear spring model of subcutaneous tissue on the radial artery and one-dimensional arterial blood flow model in an arm for the purpose of scientific verification of the pulse diagnosis. They performed, in the former study, a numerical experiment with this mathematical model in which the radial artery was indented in a stepwise manner by a pressure sensor, which extract the fundamental mechanism of the pulse diagnosis, to validate the subcutaneous tissue model and to find the appropriate coefficient to fit the experimental result. They investigated, in this research, contribution of parameters of supply pressure of the blood and tube law of the artery on the change in the pressure pulse waves with the indentation steps with respect to mean value Poav and amplitude ΔPo of the pressure. It was shown that mean supply pressure affects both Poav and ΔPo, while amplitude of the supply pressure affects ΔPo. It was also shown that profile of ΔPo vs. distance of the indentation changes drastically as the artery becomes hard. Lastly, it was examined to reproduce the experimentally obtained pressure pulse waves during the indentation in their former work with the mathematical model by adjusting the parameters. The result showed better agreement than the former result, but it implied that ulnar artery had to be taken into consideration for quantitative fitting of the pulse waves to the range where the radial artery was nearly flattened by the indentation.
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spelling doaj.art-07023aae91a04570b93a3417c38889de2022-12-22T01:24:36ZengThe Japan Society of Mechanical EngineersJournal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering1880-98632011-11-016433034210.1299/jbse.6.330jbseNumerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse DiagnosisAtsushi SHIRAI0Tsutomu NAKANISHI1Toshiyuki HAYASE2Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku UniversityInstitute of Fluid Science, Tohoku UniversityInstitute of Fluid Science, Tohoku UniversityPulse diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine is said to be able to detect not only illness but also decline of health in the patients from tactile sense of the pulse in the radial artery at the wrists. This diagnosis, however, is not supported by concrete scientific evidence. The authors have proposed a non-linear spring model of subcutaneous tissue on the radial artery and one-dimensional arterial blood flow model in an arm for the purpose of scientific verification of the pulse diagnosis. They performed, in the former study, a numerical experiment with this mathematical model in which the radial artery was indented in a stepwise manner by a pressure sensor, which extract the fundamental mechanism of the pulse diagnosis, to validate the subcutaneous tissue model and to find the appropriate coefficient to fit the experimental result. They investigated, in this research, contribution of parameters of supply pressure of the blood and tube law of the artery on the change in the pressure pulse waves with the indentation steps with respect to mean value Poav and amplitude ΔPo of the pressure. It was shown that mean supply pressure affects both Poav and ΔPo, while amplitude of the supply pressure affects ΔPo. It was also shown that profile of ΔPo vs. distance of the indentation changes drastically as the artery becomes hard. Lastly, it was examined to reproduce the experimentally obtained pressure pulse waves during the indentation in their former work with the mathematical model by adjusting the parameters. The result showed better agreement than the former result, but it implied that ulnar artery had to be taken into consideration for quantitative fitting of the pulse waves to the range where the radial artery was nearly flattened by the indentation.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jbse/6/4/6_4_330/_pdf/-char/enpulse diagnosispressure wavemathematical modelnumerical simulationone-dimensional analysis
spellingShingle Atsushi SHIRAI
Tsutomu NAKANISHI
Toshiyuki HAYASE
Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis
Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering
pulse diagnosis
pressure wave
mathematical model
numerical simulation
one-dimensional analysis
title Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis
title_full Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis
title_fullStr Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis
title_short Numerical Analysis of One-dimensional Mathematical Model of Blood Flow to Reproduce Fundamental Pulse Wave Measurement for Scientific Verification of Pulse Diagnosis
title_sort numerical analysis of one dimensional mathematical model of blood flow to reproduce fundamental pulse wave measurement for scientific verification of pulse diagnosis
topic pulse diagnosis
pressure wave
mathematical model
numerical simulation
one-dimensional analysis
url https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jbse/6/4/6_4_330/_pdf/-char/en
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