Suppression of AC railway power-line interference in ECG signals recorded by public access defibrillators 英文参考文献.docVIP

BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Suppression of AC railway power-line interference in ECG signals recorded by public access defibrillators Ivan Dotsinsky* Address: Center of Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str., bl. 105, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria Email: Ivan Dotsinsky* - iadoc@argo.bas.bg * Corresponding author Published: 26 November 2005 Received: 03 October 2005 Accepted: 26 November 2005 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2005, 4:65 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-4-65 This article is available from: /content/4/1/65 ? 2005 Dotsinsky; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Public access defibrillators (PADs) are now available for more efficient and rapid treatment of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. PADs are used normally by untrained people on the streets and in sports centers, airports, and other public areas. Therefore, automated detection of ventricular fibrillation, or its exclusion, is of high importance. A special case exists at railway stations, where electric power-line frequency interference is significant. Many countries, especially in Europe, use 16.7 Hz AC power, which introduces high level frequency-varying interference that may compromise fibrillation detection. Method: Moving signal averaging is often used for 50/60 Hz interference suppression if its effect on the ECG spectrum has little importance (no morphological analysis is performed). This approach may be also applied to the railway situation, if the interference frequency is continuously detected so as to synchronize the analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) for introducing variable inter-sample int