Arrangement and method for recording signals of biological origin

• US 20040127803A1
• Filed: 02/19/2004
• Published: 07/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eldith GmbH
• Original Assignee: Eldith GmbH
• Inventors: Schlegemilch, Falk, Henning, Guenter, Ivanova, Galina, Husar, Peter, Schellhorn, Klaus, Berkes, Sebastian
• Application Number:
  US10/474,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20040127803A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/30 Input circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7214 using signal cancellation, e.g. based on input of two identical physiological sensors spaced apart, or based on two signals derived from the same sensor, for different optical wavelengths

Abstract

The invention relates to the multi-channel recording of signals of various biological origins in the frequency range of 0 to several kilohertz, preparation of the reference potential for the differential amplifier on each channel, from the determined data from the analogue to digital converter and predominantly, though not exclusively, all areas of medicine in which biosignals are used.

Claims

1. Method for the acquisition of signals of biological origin, characterized in that the signals coming from a biological source that are converted into an electrical quantity are amplified and quantized, each channel has its own digitally controlled reference potential, and a common ground potential derived from the measured object is used.

2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the signals can be applied digitally to one or more reference channels.

3. Method according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the simultaneous acquisition of multiple-channel biological signals of the same and/or different origin is possible.

4. Arrangement for the acquisition of signals of biological origin, characterized in that the biosignals that are converted into an electrical quantity are amplified by a differential amplifier 1 and are digitized by an analog-to-digital converter 3 following an anti-aliasing filter 2, and the reference potential B_n obtained from the data of the analog-to-digital converter 3 is made available at the complementary input of the differential amplifier 1 by a digital-to-analog converter 4.