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Transmitting Biological Waveforms Using a Cellular Phone

Roche, Paul A. (2005) Transmitting Biological Waveforms Using a Cellular Phone. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

There exists a need to remotely monitor fully mobile patients in their natural environments. Monitoring a patient's biological waveforms can track a patient's vital signs or facilitate the diagnosis of a disease, which could then be treated to help prolong and/or improve the subject's life. If a patient must be monitored without the delay associated with delivering data stored on a recording device, biotelemetry is necessary. Biotelemetry entails transmitting biological waveforms to a remote site for recording, processing and analysis. Due to the limitations of the currently popular methods of biotelemetry, this thesis proposes the use of the increasingly prevalent cellular phone system. An adaptor design is developed to facilitate biotelemetry utilizing the most common features of a cell phone, barring the need for cell phone modification, as required for affordability. As cell phones notoriously confound sensitive medical equipment, especially patient-connected devices, their use is often distanced from sensitive equipment. However, the desire to use cell phones to transmit biological waveforms requires their joint-proximity to patient-connected devices. The adaptor must amplify the waveforms while rejecting cell phone interference to achieve an adequate signal-to-noise ratio. As the frequency range of most biological data does not conform to the passband of the phone system, the adapter must modulate the biological data. To limit the adapter's size and weight, this design exploits the cell phone's battery power. Methods are also introduced to receive and reconstruct high-fidelity representations of the original biological waveform.


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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Roche, Paul A.parst26@pitt.eduPARST26
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairSun, Minguimrsun@neuronet.pitt.eduDRSUN
Committee CoChairMickle, Marlinmickle@engr.pitt.eduMICKLE
Committee MemberBoston, J. Robertboston@engr.pitt.eduBBN
Committee MemberSclabassi, Robertbobs@neuronet.pitt.edu
Date: 28 January 2005
Date Type: Completion
Defense Date: 2 December 2004
Approval Date: 28 January 2005
Submission Date: 7 December 2004
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Swanson School of Engineering > Electrical Engineering
Degree: MSEE - Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Thesis Type: Master's Thesis
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: biotelemetry; cell phone interference; demodulation; EMC; interfacing landline or cell phones; modulation
Other ID: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12072004-155553/, etd-12072004-155553
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2011 20:08
Last Modified: 19 Dec 2016 14:38
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10123

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