Design of Portable ECG Recorder with USB Storage

Author

Ho, C.S. ; Chiang, T.K. ; Lin, C.H. ; Lin, P.Y. ; Cheng, J.L. ; Ho, S.H.

Author_Institution

Southern Taiwan Univ. of Technol., Tainan

fYear

2007

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1095

Lastpage

1098

Abstract

The goal of the study is to integrate several techniques, which includes biomedical signal amplifier/filter, protection circuit, analog to digital converter, USB flash disk (storage) and computer´s interface, to design a portable ECG recorder. The subjects could measure their ECG signal any time and anywhere. After transferring their ECG signal to the computer, the subject and clinician can observe the ECG data on the computer window. Besides, to test the validity of the system, a computer program is designed to locate R-wave peak of the recorded ECG data. Then, R-R interval can be calculated by location of R-wave peak and sampling rate. Heart rate can be evaluated by the following equation: heart rate (per minute) = 60/R-R interval (unit: second).

Keywords

electrocardiography; flash memories; portable instruments; recorders; R-R interval; R-wave peak; USB flash disk storage; analog-digital converter; biomedical signal amplifier; portable ECG recorder; protection circuit; Analog-digital conversion; Biomedical measurements; Circuits; Computer interfaces; Digital filters; Electrocardiography; Heart rate; Protection; Signal design; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2007. EDSSC 2007. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0637-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0637-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDSSC.2007.4450319

Filename

4450319