Electrocardiography Circuit Design Michigan （心电描记法电路设计密歇根）.pdf

ECE 480 - DESIGN TEAM 3 Electrocardiography Circuit Design Nathan M Kesto 4/5/2013 Abstract Electrocardiography (ECG) is the interpretation of the electrical activity of one’s heart over a period of time. Recently, there has been increased interest and demand in ECG measurement devices called Electrocardiograms (also abbreviated ECG) for use in the medical and research fields. This application note will attempt to give the reader a background on ECG signals as well the methods and design techniques that go into designing an ECG demonstration board. It will focus on amplifiers for the small ECG signals as well as some of the various ways of reducing various noises in the system; this includes explaining the Right Leg Drive circuit. Keywords Electrocardiography, ECG, Biopotential, Action Potential, Instrumentation Amplifier, INA333, Motion Artifacts Right Leg Drive 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Keywords 1 Electrocardiography 3 Circuit Design4 Amplifier 4-5 Filtering 6-7 Right Leg Drive7 ECG Circuit8 References9 2 Electrocardiography Cells in humans act like little batteries. These cells have different ion concentrations inside and outside of their membranes which create small electric potentials called biopotentials. When there is a disturbance in a biopotential this gives rise to an action potential which is the depolarization and repolarization of the cell as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Each living cell acts as a small battery that depolarizes and repolarizes when there is a disturbance. Essentially, the action potentials from differen