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Interpretation Of Venous Occlusion Plethysmography Using A Nonlinear Model, F. A. Anderson, Jr., William W. Durgin, H. Brownell Wheeler
Interpretation Of Venous Occlusion Plethysmography Using A Nonlinear Model, F. A. Anderson, Jr., William W. Durgin, H. Brownell Wheeler
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Venous occlusion plethysmography (VOP) is a noninvasive technique widely employed for the detection of deep-vein thrombosis. Previous reports that VOP outflow curves are closely fit by a first-order exponential suggest that venous compliance and resistance are nearly constant. Typically, however, the venous compliance function has a sigmoid shape; in addition, the resistance in a collapsing tube must increase. This paradox was resolved by the surprising finding that for realistic nonlinear compliance and resistance these nonlinearities cancel, producing a quasilinear venous outflow that approximates a simple exponential.