Comparison of DAQ-methods to measure the potential distribution in electrosurgery

The bipolar transurethral resection is a further development of monopolar transurethral resection, being the gold standard in surgical treatment of prostate and bladder diseases. To create the metrological basis for understanding of electrical and physical processes during bipolar transurethral resection an experimental set-up to visualize spatial potential distribution around bipolar devices was developed. A hardware based signal conditioning and specific undersampling are presented as data acquisition methods for a sampling rate up to 1 MS/s. These methods are compared with the possibilities of a high speed data acquisition card. For more than four measuring channels and depending on the output bandwidth of the electrosurgical generator either hardware based signal conditioning or specific undersampling is suggested.