Patent ID: 7559898

Claim:
A method for analyzing pressure-signals derivable from pressure measurements on or in a body of a human being or animal, comprising the steps of sampling said signals at specific intervals, and converting the pressure-signals into pressure related digital data with a time reference, wherein for selectable time sequences the method comprises the further steps of: a) identifying from said digital data the single pressure waves in said pressure-signals, b) computing single pressure wave related parameters of said single pressure waves, selected from: amplitude, latency, and rise time coefficient, c) identifying numbers of single pressure waves with pre-selected parameter values of such waves with respect to said parameters such as amplitude, latency and rise time coefficient, d) performing a plotting operation based on at least one of: d1) plotting the numbers of occurrences of single pressure waves with pre-selected values of amplitude and latency in a first matrix, determining balanced position of amplitude and latency combinations in said first matrix, and presenting the balanced positions obtained as numerical values or as related to weighted values, and d2) plotting the numbers of occurrences of single pressure waves with pre-selected values of rise time coefficients in a second matrix, determining balanced positions of rise time coefficients in said second matrix, and presenting the balanced positions obtained as numerical values or as related to weighted values.