Title :
A low-cost and ready to run package to transform a laptop into an advanced electrocardiograph
Author :
Pinciroli, Francesco ; Antognini, Francesco
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abstract :
An electrocardiomultigraphimeter has been built which features vectorcardiography, polar coordinate tracing, automatic measurements between manually selected fiducial points and trace data filing on patient disks. The result is a package designed to work on most laptop computers that exhibits advanced clinico-scientific capabilities, as compared to current electrocardiographic instruments, and ease of installation and use. This new instrument should be suitable not only for offices of cardiologists but also for on-site heart analysis (i.e. for mobile units) and for training purposes
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; computerised instrumentation; electrocardiography; medical diagnostic computing; portable computers; software packages; advanced clinico-scientific capabilities; advanced electrocardiograph; automatic measurements; cardiologists; electrocardiomultigraphimeter; laptop computers; low-cost ready to run package; manually selected fiducial points; medical instrument; mobile units; on-site heart analysis; patient disks; polar coordinate tracing; trace data filing; training; vectorcardiography; Application software; Cardiology; Concurrent computing; Costs; Electrocardiography; Instruments; Packaging; Portable computers; Power supplies; Safety devices;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology 1990, Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2225-3
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.1990.144298
