Patent References 3186403 3534727 3822696 3884221 Portable cardiac monitoring system and method Vectorcardiographic method for ambulatory patients Patent #: 4106495 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/464765 filed on 02/07/1983US Classes:600/512Orthogonal heartbeat electric signals combined to form vector signalExaminersPrimary: Kamm, William E.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesA61B 5/04 (20060101)G06F 17/00 (20060101) Foreign Application Priority Data1982-02-12 CHAbstractA cardiogoniometry or vector cardiography system wherein signals directly derived from the bioelectrical field are not directly processed as orthogonal data but are instead especially orthogonalized in an analog computing network. Orthogonalization is based on a derivation electrode configuration space with sloping sagittal and frontal planes. The orthogonalized signals are processed in a cardiogoniometer and are also jointly recorded on a commercial electrocardiograph in parallel thereto. All the represented data which can be used for diagnosis purposes are referenced to a biological zero line, which differs from the electrical neutral point. The cardiogoniometer permits a vectorial real time measurement on the patient. | |