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New unipolar ECG front-end without WCT achieves >92% correlation with gold standard recordings.
A novel bio-potential front-end allows unipolar ECG recording without the Wilson central terminal, achieving >92% correlation with standard ECG while requiring low power.
May simplify ECG hardware design; leaves open prospective clinical validation before adoption.
We present a bio-potential front-end capable of recording unipolar ECG leads without making use of the Wilson central terminal (WCT). The information contained in the new unipolar recordings may yield unique diagnostic information as it avoids the need to essentially subtract data or make use of the averaging effect imposed by the WCT. The system also allows a direct, real-time software calculation of signals corresponding to standard ECG leads for standard diagnosis. These calculated standard ECG leads have a correlation in excess of 92% with a gold standard ECG recorded in parallel. The circuit is wideband, compatible with both the standard and the dry electrodes, and of low power (requiring less than 20 mW powered at 12 V). It is therefore well suited for long-term applications.
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Gargiulo et al. (2012) studied ECG recording. Bio-potential front-end for unipolar ECG leads without Wilson central terminal vs. Gold standard ECG was evaluated on Correlation with gold standard ECG. A new bio-potential front-end for unipolar ECG leads without the Wilson central terminal achieved >92% correlation with a gold standard ECG recorded in parallel.
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