Patent ID: 7198602

Claim:
A method for analysing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, comprising sampling said signals at specific intervals, converting the pressure signals into pressure-related digital data with a time reference, identifying from said digital data features related to single pressure waves in said pressure signals, said identifying step including determination of a minimum pressure value related to diastolic minimum value and a maximum pressure value related to systolic maximum value, and determining at least one parameter of the single wave parameters elected from the group of: pressure amplitude=ΔP=[(maximum pressure value)−(minimum pressure value)], latency (ΔT), rise time or rise time coefficient=ΔP/ΔT, and wavelength of the single wave, and determining numbers of said single pressure waves occurring during a given time sequence, wherein said determining of numbers includes: determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected values of one or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence, and further includes determining numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected combinations of two or more of said single pressure wave parameters during said given time sequence.