Microcontroller-based underwater acoustic ECG telemetry system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-154

  Istepanian, Robert Shukri Habib ^a   Woodward, Bryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biom dical telemetry; Electrocardiogram; Pulse code modulation; Pulse position modulation; Scuba diving; Underwater acoustic communications

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; PULSE TIME MODULATION; TELEMETERING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; SELF CONTAINED UNDERWATER BREATHING APPARATUS (SCUBA) DIVING;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIVING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; DIVING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0031150037     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.640657     Document Type: Article

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