MEDICAL: Application Resources
Recent advances in wireless technologies now make it possible to free patients from their equipment, allowing greater freedom and even making possible monitoring by their health provider while the...
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Learn more about biphasic transthoracic defibrillation waveforms:
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The automated external defibrillator (AED) is a highly sophisticated microprocessor-based device that monitors, assesses and automatically treats patients with life-threatening heart rhythms. It...
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The action potential created by heart wall contraction spreads electrical currents from the heart throughout the body. The spreading electrical currents create different potentials at different...
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Medical ultrasound requires the control and processing of a variety of high-speed signals. Those signals include high-frequency sound waves, high-frequency/wide-dynamic-range continuous/pulsed...
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This paper presents a system that detects and limits acoustic shock while attempting to preserve a high level of speech intelligibility during the shock. The system is based on an ultra-low power,...
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High Speed ADCs for Medical Imaging
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Patient Monitoring/ Telemetry Application Notes :: The Pulse Oximeter
The pulse oximeter measures blood oxygenation by sensing the infrared and red light absorption properties of deoxygenated and oxygenated haemoglobin. It is comprised of a sensing probe attached to...
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A broad selection of syringe, peristaltic and continuous flow pumps to suit most applications. Syringe pump models include new innovative pumps with a wide range of flow rates and forces. Pumps...
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An ultrasound system, the most important tool in medical diagnostics, provides an accurate representation of the internals of a human body, and images of movement in the body. It contains several...
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New technology in ZOLL's CPR-D•padz includes a hand placement locator, an accelerometer, electronics, and a sophisticated processing algorithm. This system accurately measures CPR compression and...
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Describes a digital blood pressure meter concept using an integrated pressure sensor, analog signal-conditioning circuitry, microcontroller hardware-software and liqid crystal display
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External and implantable infusion pumps are deployed in an ever widening variety of therapies. These devices are continually driven to increasing accuracy, smaller size, and lower cost. One...
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Increasing operating efficiency and quality are the key drivers for implementing an integrated operating room system. Freescale Semiconductor's MCF548x Family provides the performance and...
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Medical imaging equipment is taking on an increasingly critical role in healthcare, as the industry strives to lower patient costs and achieve earlier disease prediction using non-invasive means....
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A single-chip, very-low-power interface IC used in implantable pacemaker systems is discussed. Many low power analog/digital design techniques have been utilized. A large amount of analog and...
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Existing medical devices and equipment require high levels of interaction by a doctor to monitor abnormal physiological conditions. Recent advances in low-power wireless communication technologies...
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Comprehensive article with historical and current perspective
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An implantable, dime-sized, microfluidic sensor is being developed to accurately monitor glucose levels in diabetic patients. The strategy is to use microdialysis sampling of the blood or body...
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This application note describes how to connect a high-speed Texas Instruments (TI) ADS5273 analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with serialized LVDS output to a Virtex™-II or Virtex-II Pro FPGA....
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Patient Monitoring/ Telemetry Application Notes :: Personal ECG Monitor
A personal ECG monitor is a device capable of saving human life. However, its high price limits wider use. A low-cost, single-chip solution can help overcome this obstacle. A Block Diagram in the...
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Here proposed is an innovative design idea for a semi-invasive blood sampling, analysis and drug delivery device called "Electronic Mosquito" or "eMosquitoTM". The device resembles the real...
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Article giving Design challenge, design example, featured TI products, etc, in detail
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This article proposes a novel design technique for very low-voltage (down to 1V) audio Systems-on-a-Chip based on the Log Companding theory and the MOSFET operating in subthreshold. A wide variety...
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Texas Instruments has 60 pages of comprehensive data on Medical Imaging; Consumer/Personal Medical Devices; Biophysical Monitoring; Automatic External Defibrillators (AED); Digital Hearing Aids;...
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External Defibrillator White Papers ::
Defibrillators
"Principles of Effective Waveform Design" -- comprehensive article
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Medical personnel today have a wider variety of patient information sources than ever before, yet the volume of information can be an impediment if the data is not interconnected, analyzed,...
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A new microfluidic system for measuring the mass flow rate, dose, chemical concentration, fluid density, specific gravity and temperature has been developed. Vacuum packaged, resonating silicon...
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A better alternative for high-bandwidth computations is to use a PLD as a co-processor that integrates the repetitive, speed-critical portions of an algorithm into the PLD. The purpose of this...
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A biosensor system based on the capture and detection of micron-sized, paramagnetic beads on a chip containing an array of giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors.
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