In-Vitro Measurements of Porcine Conductive Intracardiac Channel Properties

This dataset contains the raw data of the measurements/simulations presented in Modulation Scheme.. by A. Ryser et al. This work analyzed the the bit error rate (BER) performance of a prototype dual-chamber LLPM both in simulation and in-vitro experiments on porcine hearts. The transmitter and the receiver were connected to the hearts through epicardial needle electrodes, which were sutured to the right atrium (RA) and the right ventricle (RV), respectively. The dataset contains the measured and simulated BER performance as a function of the transmitted bit-energy for each investigated in-vitro condition. In total 5 porcine heart samples, 3 without and 2 with porcine blood filled into the right side of the heart, were measured. For each sample the BER performance of two low-power modulation schemes (OOK and Manchester-encoded baseband transmission) was compared at four different data rates and three different RV-electrode orientations. In addition, the BER was simulated based on measurements of the intracardiac channel transfer function and the TX/RX inter-electrode impedances. The transfer function and impedance measurements for each investigated in-vitro configuration are also included in the dataset, as well as the results of the corresponding BER simulations. For more details regarding the measurement setup and conditions, the reader is kindly referred to the Methods section of the main publication.