Modelling of an inductive sensor of the Foucault cardiogram
Modelling of an inductive sensor of the Foucault cardiogram
复制标题
傅科心电图感应传感器的建模
DOI:
10.3176/eng.2011.3.0
复制
发表时间:
2011
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Jaanus Trolla
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
J. Vedru;R. Gordon;L. Humal;Jaanus Trolla
An electric circuit model, describing the inductive sensor of cardiac mechanical activity in its working condition, has been developed. The sensor includes a single-turn inductor coil, which is considered to be attached to the thoracic surface of a man, in front of the heart. The coil is fed by 7.7 MHz constant current and induces probing eddy currents in the body. A simple axisymmetric computer model of the thorax, formed of tightly packed circular current tubes, was created to represent the coil-patient system. With complex-valued impedivities for the body tissues, the model has been used to calculate the impedances and inductances within the system. For comparison, a fine FEM model of the same system was created and tested. Comparable results of the two different calculation methods exhibited sufficient consistence. The estimates of the parameters of the system were found and the signal production was analysed. the probing currents are applied in the form of Foucault or eddy currents, using inductors. The same inductors can be used as signal receivers, thus forming sensors for inductive measurement. To improve the induction methods, identified models of such sensors are necessary. The present study is based on a concrete example of the Foucault cardiographic sensor, which is applied to track heart mechanical activity ( 2,3 ). The objective of the present work was to develop a realistic but simple computer model of the sensor loaded with a patient and, using