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Electrocardiograph: Instructor's Portion

This document provides instructions for a lab experiment where students will build an electrocardiograph (ECG) and measure heart rate from collected ECG signals using LabVIEW. Students will construct an ECG amplifier circuit based on previous instrumentation amplifier and filter projects. They will develop a LabVIEW VI to acquire ECG data and detect the R-R interval to calculate heart rate. The lab procedure provides steps for building the ECG circuit and acquiring/analyzing ECG signals. Students must submit a lab report and a sub-VI for heart rate measurement.

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Electrocardiograph: Instructor's Portion

This document provides instructions for a lab experiment where students will build an electrocardiograph (ECG) and measure heart rate from collected ECG signals using LabVIEW. Students will construct an ECG amplifier circuit based on previous instrumentation amplifier and filter projects. They will develop a LabVIEW VI to acquire ECG data and detect the R-R interval to calculate heart rate. The lab procedure provides steps for building the ECG circuit and acquiring/analyzing ECG signals. Students must submit a lab report and a sub-VI for heart rate measurement.

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Electrocardiograph

WeiLin
DepartmentofBiomedicalEngineering
StonyBrookUniversity

Instructors Portion
Summary
Thisexperimentrequiresthestudentstobuildaelectrocardiographbased
onthepreviousprojectsofinstrumentationamplifierandhighpass/low
passfilters.ThestudentsarerequiredtobuildasubVIthatcanmeasure
theheartratefromthecollectedECGsignal.

Uses
Thislectureappliestoallcoursesofvirtualinstrumentation.

Equipment List

Computers

LabVIEW7Express

NIELVISbenchtopworkstation

LabVIEW Users Manual. April 2003

LabVIEW Introduction Course - Six Hours.

LabVIEW Introduction Course - Three Hours

VIsfromtheprojectDataAcquisitionUsingNIDAQmx

References

Students Portion
Introduction
Thestudentswillbuildtheelectrocardiogram(ECG)amplifierbasedonthe
providedschematicsdiagram.TheywilldevelopaVIthatcandetecttheR
waveintheECGsignalandconverttheRRintervalintoheartrate.TheECG
amplifierwillbebasedonthecircuitsdevelopedinthepreviousprojectsof
instrumentation amplifier and filters. The students will modify the data
acquisition VIs developed in the previous project titled Data Acquisition
UsingNIDAQmxVIstocollectECGandmeasureheartrate.

Objectives

ECGamplifier
DataacquisitionusingLabVIEW
DataanalysisusingLabVIEW

Theory
The basic ECG amplifier consists of two components. The first component
is the instrumentation amplifier with typical gain of 1000 (60dB). The
second component is the band-pass filter. The low cutoff frequency is
around 0.5Hz to minimize the baseline shift. The high cutoff frequency is
around 100Hz for antialiasing purpose.

Lab Procedure
1. KeepELVISworkstationpoweroff.
2. Locatetheinstrumentationamplifierontheprototypingboardand
identifytheresistorR4andR5.Replacetheresistorswithresistorsof
10k
3. Connecttheoutputoftheinstrumentationamplifiertotheinputofthe
highpassfilter.
4. ConnectBANANAAontheprototypingboardtothepositiveinputof
instrumentationamplifier(Pin3ofLF353)
5. ConnectBANANABontheprototypingboardtothenegativeinputof
instrumentationamplifier(Pin5ofLF353)
6. TurnontheELVISworkstation.
7. PlaceECGelectrodesonthewristsofbotharmsandconnectthe
electrodestotheconnectors(BANANAA&B)oftheELEVIS
station.
8. LaunchLabVIEWandELVIS.
9. Measurethefrequencyspectrumoftheamplifierbymeasuringthe
gainatmultiplefrequencypoints.

10. UseELVISscopetochecktheECGsignal.
11. UsingfinitedataacquisitionVItorecordECGsignals
12. ModifythecontinuousdataacquisitionVImeasuretheheartrate.The
subVIforthemeasurementofheartrateshouldbefinishedbeforethe
lab.Studentsareencouragedtodeveloptheirownalgorithms.

Lab Report
Thelabreportshouldcontainthefollowing:
1. Theexperimenttitle
2. Theexperimentobjective
3. Theexperimentprocedureandtheory.Experimentresults,which
includetheplotforfrequencyspectrum(gainvs.frequency).
4. Discussion
5. Youmayaddyourlabdesignintothisproject.
6. YoumustsubmitthesubVIfortheheartratemeasurementwiththe
descriptionofuse.
Pleasesubmitthereportthroughemail.

Appendix
Filterschematics

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