Patent ID: 7476204
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: A61B,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of visually indicating to a user values of a physical property detected over a period of time by a plurality of sensors located along a segment of an organism, wherein the period of time includes a plurality of temporal intervals, the method comprising acts of: (A) for a first of the plurality of temporal intervals, with a computing device operative to provide a display and coupled to receive data from the plurality of the sensors: (B) repeating act (A) for a next one or more of the plurality of temporal intervals in sequence, including concurrently visually indicating to the user on the temporal plot a plurality of values determined during the one or more next temporal intervals and the plurality of values determined during the first temporal interval, the tones displayed for the plurality of values determined during the temporal interval and the one or more next temporal intervals being displayed at positions relative to the temporal axis such that the temporal plot indicates changes in the physical property; and (C) concurrently with the acts (A) and (B), displaying an image of at least one anatomical feature of the segment aligned along the spatial axis with values of the plurality of values representing the property as measured with the sensors at the anatomical feature.