Objective: As the global burden of cardiovascular disease increases, proactive cardiovascular healthcare by means of accurate, precise, continuous, and non-invasive monitoring is becoming crucial. However, no current device is able to provide cardiac hemodynamic monitoring with the aforementioned criterion. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an inexpensive, non-invasive imaging modality that can provide real-time images of internal conductivity distributions that describe physiological activity.
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An ASIC for a high frequency electrical impedance tomography (EIT) imaging system for prostate cancer screening is presented. The ASIC enables a small form-factor architecture, which ensures high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at MHz frequencies. The 4-channel ASIC was designed and fabricated in a standard CMOS 0.
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In this paper, we present a real-time implementation of the ideal binary-mask algorithm, which is a promising approach for enhancing speech intelligibility. Our implementation is hardware efficient, making it suitable for embedded biomedical devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. We tested our algorithm implementation on an FPGA platform, and produced results that verify that it effectively performs source separation with 25 µs latency.
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