Decreased Noise and Identification of Very Low Voltage Signals Using a Novel Electrophysiology Recording System
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Language English Country Great Britain, England Media electronic-ecollection
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
38023337
PubMed Central
PMC10658352
DOI
10.15420/ecr.2022.37
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Electrophysiology, Wilson’s Central Terminal, intracardiac electrograms, notch filtering, signal processing,
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
AIMS: The interpretation of intracardiac electrograms recorded from conventional electrophysiology recording systems is frequently impacted by powerline (50/60 Hz) noise and distortion due to notch filtering. This study compares unipolar electrograms recorded simultaneously from a conventional electrophysiology recording system and one of two 3D mapping systems (control system) with those from a novel system (ECGenius, CathVision ApS) designed to reduce noise without the need for conventional filtering. METHODS: Unipolar electrograms were recorded simultaneously from nine consecutive patients undergoing catheter ablation for AF (five patients), atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (three patients), or ventricular tachycardia (one patient) over the course of 1 week in 2020. RESULTS: The noise spectral power of the novel system (49-51 Hz) was 6.1 ± 6.2 times lower than that of the control system. Saturation artefact following pacing (duration 97 ± 85 ms) occurred in eight control recordings and no novel system recordings (p<0.001). High frequency, low amplitude signals and fractionated electrograms apparent on unfiltered novel system unipolar recordings were not present on control recordings. Control system notch filtering obscured His bundle electrograms observable without such filtering using the novel system and induced electrogram distortion that was not present on novel system recordings. Signal saturation occurred in five of seven control system recordings but none of the novel system recordings. CONCLUSION: In this study, novel system recordings exhibited less noise and fewer signal artefacts than the conventional control system and did not require notch filtering that distorted electrograms on control recordings. The novel recording system provided superior electrogram data not apparent with conventional systems.
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