title: Collecting, storing and transmitting heart sounds.
abstract: We have developed a system whereby heart sounds and accompanying electrocardiogram may be recorded in digital format, stored as files and transmitted as any other digital file. The present system is implemented on a Macintosh System 7.1 platform, but will run under System 7.0 to System 7.5. The code is written in object oriented C++. The data are presently taken using a standard heart sound microphone and ECG amplifier. The data collection program stores the sampled channels as 16 bit words. Each channel is sampled at 2 kb/s for periods of time ranging from 10 to 30 seconds. Our program then reads the file, displays it under a viewer and allows for high fidelity reproduction of the sounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Klimczak
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Knowles
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006326:Heart Auscultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006347:Heart Sounds; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted