| 摘要 |
Spatial light response around a fingertip or toe of a subject in response to electrical stimulation can be associated to a specified remote particular body anatomy, location, component, or system such as for providing a particularized physiological status indicator or other particularized response indication that is particular to the specified particular body anatomy, location, component, or system. |
| 主权项 |
1. An apparatus comprising:
a signal processor circuit, configured to:
obtain at least two-dimensional spatial response information of visible or other light around a finger or toe of a subject, the spatial response information obtained at a light detector configured to provide information regarding at least first and second spatial dimensions that are orthogonal to each other, the light obtained in response to electrical stimulation of the finger or toe sufficient to produce the light around the finger or toe; andassociate the spatial response information to a specified particular body anatomy, location, component, or system that is remote from the finger or toe at which the spatial response information was obtained, the associating including:
radially sectoring the at least two-dimensional spatial response information;computing a plurality of parameters, including using the radially sectored at least two-dimensional spatial response information to compute at least one of the parameters;adjusting or comparing at least one of the parameters using information from a clinical knowledge base representative of a population of patients including using at least some patients other than the subject; andusing the at least one adjusted parameter for using the spatial response information for providing a particularized response indication that is particular to the specified particular body anatomy, location, component, or system; an electrode, configured to provide the electrical stimulation to the finger or toe; wherein
the electrical stimulation includes AC electrical stimulation, the electrode is transparent enough to pass at least a portion of the visible or other light around the finger or toe;the light detector is configured to receive through the electrode the passed portion of the visible or other light around the finger or toe; andthe light detector is configured to provide to the signal processor circuit th two-dimensional spatial response information of visible or other light around the finger or toe; and a removable dielectric barrier, between (1) the finger or toe of the subject and (2) the electrode, wherein the dielectric barrier is configured to be transparent enough to pass the portion of the visible or other light around the finger or toe;
wherein the particularized response indication is exclusive to the specified particular body anatomy, location, component, or system, and is exclusive of other particular body anatomy, locations, components, or systems;wherein the associating further includes computing the particularized response indication using both at least two-dimensional spatial light intensity aggregate and density information; andwherein the spatial response information includes a first at least two-dimensional spatial response information and a second at least two-dimensional spatial response information, and wherein the associating includes computing the particularized response indication using differential or other relative information determined between (1) the first spatial response information, obtained with the presence of a dielectric barrier between the finger or toe and the electrode; and (2) the second spatial response information, obtained without the presence of the dielectric barrier after the dielectric barrier is removed from between the finger or toe and the electrode. |
