title: The programmable ECG simulator.
abstract: This paper reports the design and development of Digital Signal Controller (DSPIC)-based ECG simulator intended to use in testing, calibration and maintenance of electrocardiographic equipment, and to support biomedical engineering students' education. It generates all 12 healthy ECG derivation signals having a profile that varies with heart rate, amplitude, and different noise contamination in a manner which reflects true in vivo conditions. The heart rate can be set at the range of 30 to 120 beats/minute in four steps. The noise and power line interference effects can be set at the range of 0 to 20 dB in three steps. Since standard commercially available electronic components were used to construct the prototype simulator, the proposed design was also relatively inexpensive to produce.
authors.affiliation: Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Candan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caner
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Engin
authors.forename: Erkan Zeki
authors.initials: EZ
authors.lastname: Engin
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans