Research Article
Performance Evaluation of an Enhanced Uplink 3.5G System for Mobile Healthcare Applications
Table 3
Typical medical data in emergency services in case of accidents.
| Digital device | Signal or image resolution | Data rate required | Temporal/spatial (no. of samples per second) | Contrast/resolution (bits per sample) |
| Location information | 1 | 16 | 10 kbps | Digital blood pressure monitor (sphygmomanometer) | 1 | 16 | 10 kbps | Digital thermometer | 5 | 16 | 10 kbps | Respiration | 50 | 6 | 10 kbps | Digital audio stethoscope (heart sound) | 10000 | 12 | 120 kbps | Electrocardiogram ECG (3 leads) | 1250 | 12 | 15 kbps | VoIP communication of paramedics with hospital experts | — | — | 64 kbps | Compressed and full motion video (telemedicine) | — | — | 384 kbps to 1.544 Mb/s (speed) |
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