Hardware acceleration for real time simulation of physiological systems.
Testing of medical equipment such as pacemaker is a critical task, because any malfunction may cause patient death or serious and long-lasting health consequences. Thus, device behavior under normal functioning conditions as well as under faulty conditions should be tested as thoroughly as possible under the project's budget. This paper presents a real-time digital simulator (DRTS) for possible use in testing of medical devices. The simulator runs a model of a physiological system (an organ or a group of organs) in real time and uses A/D and D/A cards to interface the simulation results to real medical equipment. With this simulator, the tests can be made as thorough as needed without much increase in cost.
de Pimentel
J C G
JC
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada. jpiment@cisco.com
Tirat-Gefen
Y G
YG
D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D008954:Models, Biological; D010827:Physiology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D011381:Programming Languages; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*