Two portable long-term measurement devices for ECG and bioimpedance

Author

Vuorela, Timo ; Vanhala, Jukka ; Seppa, Ville-Pekka ; Hyttinen, Jari

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

172

Abstract

This paper presents an implementation of two portable measurement device prototypes. Both prototypes are targeted for measuring ECG and bioimpedance signals. The first prototype is a wireless type, which sends data in real-time to a PC. The second prototype is a logging device, which stores data to a memory card. After a measurement session data from memory card is transferred to a PC through USB cable. One drawback in the first prototype is a poor usability caused by the limited range of the wireless data link and another drawback is a crosstalk between measured signals. The drawbacks of the first prototype were improved in the second prototype.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical telemetry; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; memory cards; portable instruments; signal processing equipment; system buses; ECG signals; USB cable; bioimpedance signals; logging device; memory card; portable long-term measurement devices; wireless data link; Bioimpedance; Biomedical monitoring; Current measurement; Current supplies; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Impedance measurement; Measurement techniques; Prototypes; Voltage; ECG; bioimpedance; portable measurement device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571061

Filename

4571061