From: W. Trevor King Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:00:08 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Remove leftover braces from the pulse-ox post due to incomplete LaTeX conversion. X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12ddd4dd472d69ed5cfac4aab51cf90448e8d3e4;p=blog.git Remove leftover braces from the pulse-ox post due to incomplete LaTeX conversion. --- diff --git a/posts/Pulse_oxymetry.mdwn_itex b/posts/Pulse_oxymetry.mdwn_itex index 755daab..05b8b09 100644 --- a/posts/Pulse_oxymetry.mdwn_itex +++ b/posts/Pulse_oxymetry.mdwn_itex @@ -184,10 +184,10 @@ The Beer-Labmert law So far we've been labeling and defining attributes of the blood. The point of this excercise is to understand how a pulse oximeter measures them. People have known for a while that different hemoglobin -complexes (HbO₂, HHb, MHb, HbCO, …) have differnt absorbtion -spectra (Fig.~\ref{fig:absorbtion}), and they have been using this -difference since the 1930's to make pulse-oximeters based on two-color -transmittance measurements (see [Tremper 1989][T89]). +complexes (HbO₂, HHb, MHb, HbCO, …) have differnt absorbtion spectra, +and they have been using this difference since the 1930's to make +pulse-oximeters based on two-color transmittance measurements (see +[Tremper 1989][T89]). [[!img absorbtion.png size="600x418" @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ Nomenclature wavelength $\lambda$
$L$
Length of tissue through which light must pass
$L_\text{DC}$
Diastolic finger width
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$R$
Optical density ratio}
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$R$
Optical density ratio
LED
Light emitting diode