Suppression of AC railway power-line interference in ECG signals recorded by public access defibrillators

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dotsinsky, Ivan ^a  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER LINE FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATORS; RAILWAY INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

DEFIBRILLATORS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; RAILROAD STATIONS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEART FIBRILLATION; NOISE; RAILWAY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTRICITY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DEFIBRILLATORS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RAILROADS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 28844471925     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-4-65     Document Type: Article

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