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The Gated Phonocardiogram: A Method of Digital Enhancement

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Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine
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Automated heart sound analysis has been slow to develop for a number of reasons, two of which are signal quality and physiologic variability. These difficulties can be readily approached through current microprocessor technology and the sequential overlay average (gating) of the phonocardiogram (PCG).

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Pett, S.B., Halsall, R., Hoover, E.I., Gay, W.A., Subramanian, V. (1982). The Gated Phonocardiogram: A Method of Digital Enhancement. In: Prakash, O., Spence, A.A., Payne, J.P., Jonson, B., Nair, S. (eds) Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6704-2_27

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