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Design of an Equipment for Acquisition and Processing of the Electrocardiogram and Breathing Signals for the Analysis of Heart Rate Variability

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IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering 2007, Bioengineering Solutions for Latin America Health

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This paper presents the design of a prototype of a portable equipment for acquiring and processing the electrocardiogram and breathing signals for the analysis of heart rate variability. The equipment has been mainly designed to analyze the relationship between breathing to different frequencies and beat-to-beat heart rate variability. The equipment consists of a module of hardware and software for the acquisition of the electrocardiogram and breathing signals and a second module of software for processing both signals. This software was developed by using graphical programming based on the LabVIEW platform. The architecture, design criteria and test results of the designed equipment are presented.

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  1. Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, México

    Ángeles Fabián Alvarez & Edmundo Barrera Cardiel

  2. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, México

    Humberto Ruiz Vega

  3. Instituto de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, México

    Gerardo Barrera Cardiel

  4. Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Ciudad Universitaria, Edif. Posgrado de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Morelia, Michoacán, México

    Ángeles Fabián Alvarez

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  1. Departamento de Mecánica, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Caracas, 1080A, Venezuela

    Carmen Müller-Karger

  2. Departamento de Electrónica, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Caracas, 1080A, Venezuela

    Sara Wong

  3. Departamento de Computación y Tecnología de la Información, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Caracas, 1080A, Venezuela

    Alexandra La Cruz

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Alvarez, Á.F., Cardiel, E.B., Vega, H.R., Cardiel, G.B. (2007). Design of an Equipment for Acquisition and Processing of the Electrocardiogram and Breathing Signals for the Analysis of Heart Rate Variability. In: Müller-Karger, C., Wong, S., La Cruz, A. (eds) IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering 2007, Bioengineering Solutions for Latin America Health. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74471-9_108

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