Virtual Instrumentation Based Equipment for Bio-medical Measurements

This paper presents our equipment forbio-chemical measurement, designed for monitoringthe functional parameters of the persons undergoingeffort tests. This equipment, based on a virtualinstrumentation, has more functions: the acquisitionof biological signals from the participant running inthe effort tests for the anaerobic threshold; thehardware and software configuration of theequipment; the setting of maximal parametersdepending on the type of test; the processing of theacquired data in real time for various alarms, endpoints and displaying this data on the screen; thetransmission of the acquired signals in real time orof the stored ones to a computer for further analysis.This provides a useful and elegant tool for bothhardware and software development and for dailyusage for research or stress tests regularly carriedout in the Cardiology or Sports MedicineDepartments of Hospitals.