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5224486 Method and apparatus for classifying heartbeat waveforms  
A computer controls a video display having a display screen for displaying ECG heartbeats superimposed over one another. The ECG data is collected during Holter monitoring and stored in a memory....
5218532 Method and system for acquiring MR data in MRI  
A change, e.g., a cardiac arrhythmia or a motion in a subject is monitored during an acquisition of MR data in an MRI apparatus, and it is determined whether or not a change occurs in the subject....
5215098 Data compression of cardiac electrical signals using scanning correlation and temporal data compression  
A method and apparatus for storing a representation of a cardiac signal by compressing the data using scan correlation and temporal data compression techniques. The method and apparatus sense...
5214580 Process for identifying discrete data representative of an input sample stream  
Processing waveform data for compressed display. A parameter to be displayed is measured, digitized, and displayed on a device that does not permit display of all of the data samples; thus, the...
5189609 Medical monitoring system with softkey control  
An input device, in particular for a medical monitoring system, comprises a keyboard, a screen and a control processor. The keyboard comprises various hardkeys enabling access to an object mode in...
5188116 Electrocardiographic method and device  
A method and apparatus for detecting heart disease from an electrocardiogram (ECG) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the ECG signals, correcting for signal variability...
5184620 Method of using a multiple electrode pad assembly  
A method of monitoring natural electrical impulses from a patient's heart, and providing appropriate therapeutic electrical impulses to a patient's heart comprising the steps of placing on the...
5170794 Method and apparatus for deriving a respiration signal and/or artifact signal from a physiological signal  
A method for deriving a respiration signal and/or a cardiac artifact signal from a physiological signal, in particular an impedance pneumography signal, includes detection of a heartbeat moment,...
5164898 System for determining hazardous substance exposure rate from concentration measurement and heart rate data  
A device for measuring a rate exposed to deleterious materials comprises a heartbeat sensor for sensing heart rates, a deleterious material sensor for sening concentrations of deleterious materials...
5123420 Method and apparatus for processing heart rate traces in a fetal monitor  
A fetal monitor capable of recording the heart rate trace, preferably the beat-to-beat heart rate trace, of a fetus and a second heart rate trace of the mother or of a second fetus. Coincidence...
5058597 Long-term electrocardiograph for screening  
An electrocardiograph has an R wave detector for detecting an R wave out of an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal being collected from a subject. When the R wave detector detects an R wave, a heart...
5054496 Method and apparatus for recording and analyzing body surface electrocardiographic peak maps  
The peak potential values of each cardioelectric wave components detected from the body surface are uniquely presented as a few iso-potential and isochronous contour maps by the electrocardiac peak...
5052398 QRS filter for real time heart imaging with ECG monitoring in the magnetic field of an NMR imaging system and NMR imaging apparatus employing such filter  
A pair of Butterworth 4th order filters are cascaded with an absolute value filter to filter the QRS wave of an ECG signal generated in a magnetic field of an NMR imaging system. The NMR system...
5046504 Method and apparatus for analyzing and interpreting electrocardiograms using spectro-temporal mapping  
Method and apparatus for analyzing ECG signal data for diagnostic purposes by performing an incrementally moving, short window FFT analysis to produce a set of spectral templates representative of...
5042498 Intelligent electrocardiogram system  
An Intelligent Electrocardiogram System that solves the problem of faulty electrical connections between a patient and an ECG instrument is disclosed. The electrode employed by the invention...
5042497 Arrhythmia prediction and prevention for implanted devices  
A system for predicting and preventing cardiac arrhythmias for use in combination with an implanted arrhythmia treatment device comprising means for sensing the neural activity of a patient and...
5042499 Noninvasive electrocardiographic method of real time signal processing for obtaining and displaying instantaneous fetal heart rate and fetal heart rate beat-to-beat variability  
A fetal heart rate monitor monitors weak fetal electrocardiogram signals in the presence of strong interfering material ECG complexes, general random background muscle noise, and 60 Hz power line...
5038785 Cardiac and respiratory monitor with magnetic gradient noise elimination  
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus (A) generates a uniform magnetic field, causes gradient fields transversely thereacross, excites resonance in nuclei within the image region, receives radio...
5038791 Heart imaging method  
A method for providing an image of the human heart's electrical system derives time-of-flight data from an array of EKG electrodes and this data is transformed into phase information. The phase...
5038800 System for monitoring patient by using LAN  
A system for monitoring a patient by using a local area network (LAN) to connect a central monitor, located at a nurse's station, to one or more bedside monitors, wherein the bedside monitor...
5036869 Medical wireless telemeter  
A medical wireless telemeter includes a transmitter section having one or more different types of transmitters corresponding to different medical body signals to be transmitted as a telegram to a...
5033473 Method for discriminating pace pulse tails  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for discriminating pace pulse tails generated by signals discriminated from QRS complexes by mathematically ascertaining that the signal following the pace pulse...
5033474 ECG cable storage means in a personal health monitor  
In a personal health monitor that includes one or more cables for connection to a patient information about whose clinical condition the personal health monitor can monitor, an improvement for the...
5027824 Method and apparatus for detecting, analyzing and recording cardiac rhythm disturbances  
Apparatus for detecting, analyzing and recording cardiac events includes a patient-wearable monitor detecting cardiac events and cardiac rhythm and processing information indicative of those events...
5029082 Correlative analysis in multi-domain processing of cardiac signals  
An apparatus and method for detecting and processing bioelectric signals, such as ECG, VCG, EEG, etc, comprising: a plurality of electrodes for detecting electric signals from different locations...
5025794 Method for analysis of electrocardiographic signal QRS complex  
A method and apparatus for examining the QRS complex of ECG signals to detect minute late potentials. The system functions to filter the QRS signals bi-directionally, and further separately...
5025795 Non-invasive cardiac performance monitoring device and method  
A non-invasive cardiac monitoring device for calculating the cardiac performance parameters of heartbeat, stroke volume, and cardiac output for an individual. The device receives a plurality of...
5020540 Cardiac biopotential analysis system and method  
Disclosed is a cardiac biopotential analysis system and method for detecting and quantifying in a noninvasive manner nonlinear dynamic patterns of depolarization and repolarization on a beat to...
5020528 Method and apparatus for permitting medical personnel to attend to a patient situated in a hazardous location remote therefrom  
An apparatus for permitting medical personnel to attend to an injured individual situated in a hazardous area from a remote location. The apparatus includes a first end adapted to be located at a...
5020541 Apparatus for sensing lead and transthoracic impedances  
A method and apparatus for use with medical electrode systems that sense the integrity of lead connections and patient transthoracic impedance is provided. In an ECG electrode application, a...
5018724 Arrangement for measuring physiologically generated weak biomagnetic signals while the examination subject is at rest and exercising  
A multi-channel arrangement for measuring weak magnetic fields in living tissues, and for localizing the current sources which cause the magnetic fields by evaluating the topical magnetic values...
5016642 Slow motion cardiac imaging  
Apparatus and method for representing slow motion of an oscillating heart by forming strobed images of the heart at a sequence of uniformly spaced times with controllable time interval lengths that...
5014284 Discrete slope delta modulation with recovery means  
A method and apparatus for processing electrical signals by modifying delta modulation to discrete slope delta modulation includes converting its electrical signals into compressed digital...
5010888 Method and apparatus for detection of posterior ischemia  
An apparatus for automatically detecting a posterior ischemia includes a multi-element esophageal electrode coupled to an artifact suppressing circuit and a cardiac stimulator. Output from the...
5010887 Noise discrimination in implantable pacemakers  
A noise discrimination circuit determines if sensed electrocardiographic (ECG) pulsed signals sensed within a pulse generator are valid ECG signals, i.e., valid P-waves or R-waves, or noise. The...
5007430 Rhythmic biofeedback technique  
A rhythmic biofeedback technique for inducing relaxation to counteract the adverse physiological and psychological effects of chronic stress on an individual. In this technique, the heart beat of...
5007431 Apparatus and method for updated recording of irregularities in an electrocardiogram waveform  
A system for detecting, recording, and maintaining, on an updated priority basis, segments of electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms containing unusual activities, and including the characteristics of...
5003984 Apparatus for alerting a doctor by radio to provide an alarm for a patient  
An apparatus for alerting a doctor which provides an alarm corresponding to a patient, and receives living body information signals transmitted through a transmitter. The apparatus alerts a doctor...
5003983 Cardiac monitoring system  
A cardiac monitor system reads an EKG signal and conditions the EKG waveform in a manner that accentuates the information on ST segment location, within the waveform. ST segment location is used to...
5002062 Ambulatory electrocardiographic apparatus  
An ambulatory electrocardiographic apparatus includes a main body which has a card mounting section for an IC memory card. The IC memory card can be inserted into the card mounting section and can...
5002063 Electronic physiological data monitoring  
An ECG system is disclosed having amplification circuitry which, while effectively blocking electrical transients resulting from undesirable low frequency electrical artifacts, nevertheless...
5000182 Cardiac synchronization magnetic resonance imaging  
A cardiac monitor (62, 64) monitors the cardiac cycles of a patient in an examination region (10). Each cardiac cycle includes an R-wave (40) at the beginning of the end-diastole. A conditioning...
4999772 Sleep screening system with time based modulated data  
A portable sleep monitoring system for recording on tape, transcribing and charting a plurality of physiologic data channels recorded relative to a known constant, user-transparent time base....
4998535 Thrombolysis predictive instrument  
An instrument for predicting the benefit of using thrombolytic therapy to treat a patient with a heart condition including a first input port for receiving inputs derived from electrocardiograph...
4993423 Method and apparatus for differential lead impedance comparison  
A differential lead impedance comparison apparatus (10) senses lead impedance and compensates for patient-to-patient and electrode variability. A bridge circuit (12) is connected to one end of...
4991580 Method of improving the quality of an electrocardiogram obtained from a patient undergoing magnetic resonance imaging  
A method for improving the quality of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals for input to a cardiac monitor and obtained from a patient undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) wherein the ECG leads...
4991587 Adaptive filtering of physiological signals in physiologically gated magnetic resonance imaging  
A patient (B) is disposed in a region of interest of a magnetic resonance apparatus (A). During an imaging sequence, changing magnetic field gradients and radio frequency pulses are applied to the...
4989610 Method and system of ECG data review and analysis  
A method and computerized system for ECG data review and analysis are provided. In preferred embodiments, a transformation is performed on beat data and the transformed data are categorized into...
4987901 Method and apparatus for selecting a physiologically standardized sensor of a multi-sensor electrocardiogram sensor set  
A method and apparatus for identifying physiologically standardized electrode positions from a multisensor electrocardiogram electrode sensor set. The P-, Q-, R-, S-, and T-wave components of each...
4987902 Apparatus for transmitting patient physiological signals  
An apparatus (10) for transmitting a patient physiological signal is provided. A converter (12) includes a front end circuit (28) that receives and conditions a patient physiological signal, V P ,...