Development of a High Precision Body Surface Electrocardiogram

Abstract

In the 12-lead electrocardiograph currently being used general medical practice, electrodes are positioned at 6 locations in the chest region and the cardiac potential is measured. This research increases the number of electrode to 124 at evenly-spaced intervals over the body surface of the chest, side and back. The commonly used band elimination filter is not used as a countermeasure for exclusion of the noise from such electrodes, and a body surface electrocardiograph has been developed that makes it possible to perform high-speed sampling of the cardiac potential at 80-100 times the conventional rate. From the sampling data obtained with high spatial resolution, maps and animations of the body surface potential distribution are created and displayed from the 1dimension waveform as well as from the 2dimensions/3dimensions waveforms.