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An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test of the characteristic electrical activity of your heart.

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Design of a Gel-less Two-Electrode ECG Monitor

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Why would you put your input amplifier in front of your filtering for an ECG signal?

In this article at eetimes.com they show the signal chain for measuring an ECG. The raw signal of an ECG contains noise and offsets at least a magnitude larger than the real signal. (Some few mV ECG, several tens of mV from power line noise and…
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What does this op-amp circuit do? (part of an ECG)

I would like create an ECG circuit based on this schematic (from the AD620AN datasheet): I don't know this part of the circuit and how it works. I know this is called a right leg driven circuit which is reducing the effect of the noise. But I don't…
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Does anyone have advice on homemade EKG/ECG leads?

I'm not sure this is where it should be posted, so apologies in advance, but I'm working with an Arduino and Sparkfun's heart rate monitor AD8232 (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12650) to gather ECG data for heartrate. I want to try to collect…
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ECG artifacts and two electrode ECG without a driven electrode (AD8232 analogue front-end)

I am using the SparkFun Heart Rate Monitor which contains the AD8232 front-end chip. I want to use only two electrodes (LA and RA) without the RLD driven electrode. I am aware that this question has already been asked here. I have read through…
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ECG circuit Pre amplifier

I am in the process of designing an ECG circuit to detect heartbeat abnormalities. I have two question regarding the AD8220 datasheet: What is the function of the 2.2pF, 10pF capacitor, 10k, 15k resistors, and the diodes prior to the AD8220? What…
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Working principle of the AD8232 high pass filter

This is the datasheet of the AD8232. On page 22 in the section "Additional High-Pass Filtering Options" is this diagram: It is said that the cut off frequency is located at I tried to find out where this formula came from. I tried to make the…
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ECG signal amplification

I am developing a project for ECG detection using PVDF (Piezo Film) sensor. I have already managed to detect my heart rate but since the sensor used produces voltage corresponding to vibrations, sometimes the signal of interest has lower amplitude…
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Transient analysis of ECG circuit in LTspice is taking a long time

I have been designing a circuit to filter noise from an ECG signal and amplify the signal of interest. I am achieving this by cascading the output of an instrumentation amplifier with a bandpass filter and then a notch filter. The AC analysis of the…
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How to design a 2nd Order High Pass Butterworth filter with a cutoff frequency of 0.5 Hz?

c1=c2=10µf, R1? R2? using the unity-gain Sallen-key topology what should I do?
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ECG / EEG Amplifier design tricks

First of all, sorry, I missed the links / images where I have found the solutions mentioned below (I hope, if you are familiar with this topic, you know them): I have to design an ECG / EEG analog amplifier with a gain around 1000. Sigma-Delta is…
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DC-AC converter?

Source:https://digital.wpi.edu/downloads/ns064789m?locale=zh page:15 Could someone tell me what component is this? ADC as a switch?! I am trying to build the 12 lead ECG circuit with Schematic symbols in Proteus 8
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Which lead is the output when 3 lead ECG system is used?

I am using ECG signal conditioning chip called AD8232. It takes 3 inputs, namely, right arm (RA), left arm (LA) and Right leg (RL) & gives one analog output as the ECG signal. According to einthoven's triangle for ECGs, there can be 3 leads (Lead…
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Stability of driven right leg circuit in ECG amplifier

I am currently writing my Bachelor Project about an ECG amplifier. Common mode voltage on the body has a much higher amplitude than an ECG signal. To attenuate common mode noise a differential amplifier is used. Furthermore, a circuit known as…
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What is the reference voltage of Vin- and Vin+ in this circuit?

I'm trying to make a PCB board to measure Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. I have some doubts about the DC offset of the 2 input signals (\$V_{IN-}\$, \$V_{IN+}\$) with reference to analog ground. I would appreciate it if someone can help. I'm…
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How to convert the outputs from the AD8232 ECG modules back to the raw ECG millivolts (mV)

I have been working with the AD8232 ECG modules for a while now and I am trying to figure out what the raw ECG outputs from this module correlate to. I cannot seem to find any information from their datasheets as to what these output values…
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