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BANDPASS SELECTION FOR BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS Frequency Ranges of Various Biopotential Signals Common biopotential signals As shown in Table 2.1, common biopotential signals span the range dc to 10 kHz. Under ideal conditions, a biopotential amplifier with wideband response would serve most applications. However, the presence of common-mode potentials, electrode polarization, and other interfering signals often obscure the biopotential signal under investigation. As such, the frequency response of a biopotential amplifier should be tuned to the specific spectral content expected from the application at hand. Frequency Ranges of Various Biopotential Signals Frequency Ranges of Various Biopotential Signals WIDEBAND BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIER The biopotential amplifier circuit described by the schematic diagrams of Figures 2.2 and 2.3 covers the complete frequency range of commonly recorded biopotentials with high CMR. -3dB bandpass Spectral analysis is the most common way of determining the bandwidth required to process physiological signals. For a first estimate, however, the rigors of spectral analysis can be avoided simply by evaluating the durations of high- and low-frequency components of the signal. Koide [1996] proposed a method for estimating the -3dB bandpass based on acceptable distortion. A stereotypical intracellular signal The duration of the highest-frequency component, tHF, is estimated from a stereotypical signal to be the minimum rise or fall time of a signal variation. The duration of the lowest frequency component, tLF, on the other hand, is measured from the tilt of the baseline or of the lowest-frequency component of interest. Koide illustrated this with an example. Figure 2.1 shows a stereotypical intracellular potential measured from the pacemaker cells in a mammalian heart SA node. In this example, tHF=75 ms and tLF=610 ms. Using the formulas of Table 2.2, the amplification system must have a 3-dB bandpass of 0.0026 to 41.3 Hz to reproduce