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A telemedicine instrument for remote evaluation of tremor: design and initial applications in fatigue and patients with Parkinson's disease.

Biomed Eng Online · 2011-02-09

DOI: 10.1186/1475-925x-10-14PMID: 21306628

Open accessResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; research-article; Evaluation Study; Journal ArticleOriginal source ↗

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IntroductionA novel system that combines a compact mobile instrument and Internet communications is presented in this paper for remote evaluation of tremors. The system presents a high potential application in Parkinson's disease and connects to the Internet through a TCP/IP protocol. Tremor transduction is carried out by accelerometers, and the data processing, presentation and storage were obtained by a virtual instrument. The system supplies the peak frequency (fp), the amplitude (Afp) and power in this frequency (Pfp), the total power (Ptot), and the power in low (1-4 Hz) and high (4-7 Hz) frequencies (Plf and Phf, respectively).MethodsThe ability of the proposed system to detect abnormal tremors was initially demonstrated by a fatigue study in normal subjects. In close agreement with physiological fundamentals, the presence of fatigue increased fp, Afp, Pfp and Pt (p ConclusionsThe proposed system can be used in a wide spectrum of telemedicine scenarios, enabling the home evaluation of tremor occurrence under specific medical treatments and contributing to reduce the costs of the assistance offered to these patients.

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