Study on the influence of wireless communication systems on the EKG signal

Author

Catalina, Luca ; Salceanu, Andrei

Author_Institution

Fac. of Med. Bioeng., Med. & Pharm. Univ. “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

423

Lastpage

426

Abstract

The paper presents noteworthy results upon the influence of some specific electromagnetic fields emitted by three types of wireless communication systems (GSM 900, DECT and Bluetooth) on target acquisition and processing of real-time EKG signals. We have used a cardiac signal simulator, aiming to avoid other subjective stimuli, in order to extract only the significant influences due to some specific radio-frequency traffic upon the EKG signal, including the collecting leads from the source and the electrocardiograph itself.

Keywords

biomedical communication; cellular radio; electrocardiography; electromagnetic fields; medical signal processing; telecommunication traffic; Bluetooth; DECT; GSM 900; cardiac signal simulator; electrocardiogram; electromagnetic fields; radio-frequency traffic; real-time EKG signal processing; wireless communication systems; Bluetooth; Educational institutions; Electrocardiography; Electromagnetic fields; Mobile handsets; Rhythm; electrocardiogram; electromagnetic interference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2014 International Conference and Exposition on

Conference_Location

Iasi

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEPE.2014.6969942

Filename

6969942