A low-cost, portable, high-throughput wireless sensor system for phonocardiography applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 10851-10870

  Sa ngasoongsong, Akkarapol ^a   Kunthong, Jakkrit ^b   Sarangan, Venkatesh ^c   Cai, Xinwei ^d   Bukkapatnam, Satish T S ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b Boonjitwitthaya School   (Thailand)

^c TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

^d Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart sound; Phonocardiography applications; Wireless sensor system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

HEART SOUND; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

HUMANS; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; TELEMEDICINE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84865383998     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120810851     Document Type: Article

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