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Project Statement: Impedance Cardiography is a medical procedure utilized in order to properly analyze and depict the flow of blood through the body. With this technique, four electrodes are attached to the body, two on the neck and two on the chest, which take beat by beat measurements blood volume and velocity changes in the aorta. However, this system withholds degrees of inaccuracy due to the mere fact that the electrodes are placed too far from the heart. Our collective goal is to design an accurate, reusable, spatially specific system that ensures more accurate and reliable readings.
Built our preliminary amplifier and now we are attempting to perfect the amplifier so that we can begin testing our design.
| Week | Reporting Period Beginning | Activities |
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| 1 | September 4 | Met With Graduate Students Amit, Ryan, and Elena, who are helping us with our project through Professor Webster |
| 2 | September 11 | Met With Client Professor Webster, and |
| 3 | September 18 | FIrst team lab to run over some simple electronics |
| 4 | September 25 | Had another team lab with electronics and met to discuss some preliminary designs and specifications |
| 5 | October 2 | Team lab with electronics and circuitry to help us begin to build some of our designs |
| 6 | October 9 | Designed midsemester Project Presentation, met multiple times to discuss designs |
| 7 | October 16 | Project midsemester Presentation |
| 8 | October 23 | Built preliminary Amplifier with our awesome Graduate Student Elena |
| 9 | October 30 | Debugged our amplifier |
| 10 | November 6 | Finished Amplifier and was able to get proper signal, built preliminary model to begin testing |
| 11 | November 13 | |
| 12 | November 20 | |
| 13 | November 27 | |
| 14 | December 4 | |
| 15 | December 11 |
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Project Design Specifications (Oct 11 2009, 24 kb) |
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Mid-Semester Presentation .ppt (Oct 16 2009, 1811 kb) |
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Mid-Semester Report (Oct 21 2009, 299 kb) |
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Mid-Semester Report (Oct 21 2009, 416 kb) |
