A method for simultaneous determination of (I) the blood flows to the organs and (II) the cardiac output

Abstract

A method is presented for the simultaneous determination of (i) the blood flow to the organs and (ii) the cardiac output. Part I of the paper deals with the analysis of ann compartment (organ) vascular system model. The data, employed in the analysis, consists of continuous monitoring of the amounts of indicatorM _i in the organs (or compartments). An analysis for determination of the cardiac output and the absolute flows to the organs is presented. Since it is difficult to isolate certain organ systems and measure the amounts of indicator in them exclusively, a more realistic model of then compartment vascular system is presented in Part II. Herein, the analysis has accounted for the finite transit time, of the indicator, from one organ system to another. Further, estimation theory is employed to make estimates of blood flow to different organs by taking note of (i) the measurement errors due to the detectors' monitoring (for an organ system) some combination ofM _i 's instead of theM _i for the particulari ^th organ and (ii) noise uncertainties introduced by the measuring instruments.