PC-based system for collection and analysis of physiological data.

A personal computer based system for data acquisition and analysis appropriate to physiological experiments is described in detail. The system is independent of the details of the analog signal generation. The software, written in C, is modular and easily portable to other PC systems. The system is capable of: (a) sampling many analog signals at an appropriate rate (100 Hz), (b) storing large quantities of digitized data, (c) analysing digitized waveforms to obtain signal parameters, and (d) storing signal parameters in a format suitable for statistical analysis. Computer processed cardiopulmonary data are compared with data derived from standard ICU equipment.

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