TY - GEN
T1 - A BAN system for realtime ECG monitoring
T2 - 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
AU - Chiu, Rong Dong
AU - Wu, Sau-Hsuan
PY - 2011/6/23
Y1 - 2011/6/23
N2 - A body area network is developed for a 3-Lead wireless electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring system. To measure the 3-Lead ECG signals without using wires for electrodes to connect to a common ground, we study a new ECG sensing method that directly and synchronously measures the voltage differences across the nearby electrodes of distributed ECG leads. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the qualities of the ECG signals acquired from various placements and distances between the electrodes are compared with the ones obtained with the standard wired ECG measurement method. The highest correlation coefficient between the wired and wireless ones is shown by experiments to be as high as 0.946. And the separation between the two electrodes of an ECG lead can be drastically reduced to around 10cm which is about the size of a medium adhesive tape. This shows that a 3-Lead wireless ECG monitoring system is in fact feasible. More advanced approaches may be developed based on the results obtained herein to further construct a 12-Lead wireless ECG system.
AB - A body area network is developed for a 3-Lead wireless electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring system. To measure the 3-Lead ECG signals without using wires for electrodes to connect to a common ground, we study a new ECG sensing method that directly and synchronously measures the voltage differences across the nearby electrodes of distributed ECG leads. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the qualities of the ECG signals acquired from various placements and distances between the electrodes are compared with the ones obtained with the standard wired ECG measurement method. The highest correlation coefficient between the wired and wireless ones is shown by experiments to be as high as 0.946. And the separation between the two electrodes of an ECG lead can be drastically reduced to around 10cm which is about the size of a medium adhesive tape. This shows that a 3-Lead wireless ECG monitoring system is in fact feasible. More advanced approaches may be developed based on the results obtained herein to further construct a 12-Lead wireless ECG system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959294898&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779479
DO - 10.1109/WCNC.2011.5779479
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959294898
SN - 9781612842547
T3 - 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
SP - 2107
EP - 2112
BT - 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2011
Y2 - 28 March 2011 through 31 March 2011
ER -