Validation of the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories 3-Channel Personal Telemetry System
Report Number: AMRL TR 64-124
Author(s): Ax, Albert F.
Corporate Author(s): The Lafayette Clinic
Laboratory: Biophysics Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1964-12
Pages: 34
Contract: AF 33(657)-9352
DoD Project: 7222
Identifier: AD0610589
Abstract:
The art of physiological telemetry is borderline in three areas: (1) sensors, (2) transmitter, (3) data processing. This study assessed the AMRL 3-channel personal telemetry from all three aspects. Analysis of the records transmitted from men in various graded intensities of physical activity revealed that of the three physiological variables (respiration, EKG, and temperature), respiration was the least valid. Torso circumference changes sensed by rubber tube strain gages proved superior to the impedance method for measuring respiration. Some tentative findings on a stress interview study reveal the telemetry method to have promise. It was shown that the major difficulty preventing widespread use of physiological telemetry in significant field situations is the lack of a practicable high-speed data processing system which can distinguish and utilize the occasionally valid physiological signal emersed in artifact or noise produced by movements and changing environmental influences. The solution to the artifact problem is first to sense and utilize movement and environmental influences to gate out and to correct the physiological data and second to develop automatic editing apparatus and computer programs for recognition and selection of the valid signal patterns.
Provenance: RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine
Author(s): Ax, Albert F.
Corporate Author(s): The Lafayette Clinic
Laboratory: Biophysics Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1964-12
Pages: 34
Contract: AF 33(657)-9352
DoD Project: 7222
Identifier: AD0610589
Abstract:
The art of physiological telemetry is borderline in three areas: (1) sensors, (2) transmitter, (3) data processing. This study assessed the AMRL 3-channel personal telemetry from all three aspects. Analysis of the records transmitted from men in various graded intensities of physical activity revealed that of the three physiological variables (respiration, EKG, and temperature), respiration was the least valid. Torso circumference changes sensed by rubber tube strain gages proved superior to the impedance method for measuring respiration. Some tentative findings on a stress interview study reveal the telemetry method to have promise. It was shown that the major difficulty preventing widespread use of physiological telemetry in significant field situations is the lack of a practicable high-speed data processing system which can distinguish and utilize the occasionally valid physiological signal emersed in artifact or noise produced by movements and changing environmental influences. The solution to the artifact problem is first to sense and utilize movement and environmental influences to gate out and to correct the physiological data and second to develop automatic editing apparatus and computer programs for recognition and selection of the valid signal patterns.
Provenance: RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine