MA and MP ensured the technical performance of the experiment in a hospital and processed the experimental data, DK performed the pacemaker settings and ensured communication between the device and the programmer and performed data analysis, JC and AB critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Authors’ informations
D. Korpas was born in Opava, Czechoslovakia, in 1977. He received the M.S. degree in Radioelectronic engineering from Czech Technical University, Prague, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Medical biophysics from Palacky University, Olomouc, in 2004. Since 2004, he has been a biomedical engineer for Boston Scientific Company. He is the author of three books, more than 20 articles, and more than 40 abstracted contributions. His research interests include Active implantable medical devices, Medical devices regulations and Devices for diagnostic and physiological measurement. He is a juridical expert in active implantable medical devices and holds two patents. Mr. Korpas was a recipient of “The best original contribution” of Physician and Technology Journal for 2003 and Dean’s price for the best student work for the article “Artery Hemodynamics and Pulse Wave Propagation” in 2004.
M. Augustynek was born in Ostrava, in 1984. He received the M.S. degree in Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer science in specialization Measurement and Control in Biomedicine at VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in Technical cybernetics from Technical University of Ostrava, in 2014. Nowadays he is an assistant professor in the Department of Cybernetics and biomedical engineering at the Technical university of Ostrava. He is author or coauthor of six books focused on medical devices and more than 20 original articles. His current research interests are focused on measurement and signal processing of ECG and actimetry, algorithms for pacemakers controlling and algorithms for data processing. His graduation theses "Wireless measuring and visualization of blood pressure" was awarded by the dean and besides he was a grand-aided student of Municipality of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
M. Penhaker was born in Ostrava, in 1972. finished MSc in 1996 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer science in specialization Measurement and Control in Biomedicine at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He received Ph.D. in Technical Cybernetics in 2000 at VSB – TU Ostrava. In the course of university education he published more than 100 original research articles including over 30 peer reviewed journal papers and also he has more than 30 patents realized. He received several awards, among them the Siemens in “Study of Drive Gear at Mobile Mount with Fuel Cell”. His current research interests are focused on sensing, data processing algorithms, instruments for diagnosis and therapy of health corresponding with telemedicine and personal health care.
J. Cvek, (born in1978) graduated at 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague (2004) and Faculty of Electrical engineering Czech Technical University in Prague (2002). Ph.D. degree in 2006, consultant in radiation oncology from 2010, two ESTRO (European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology) certifications in 2005 and 2008. He works as deputy Head at the Department of Oncology-University Hospital Ostrava (Czech Republic). He is a member of Czech Society for Oncology and Czech Society for Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics. He has been investigator of three grants in last 5 years. He is co-author of three books and several dozen of contributions have been published in the journal or at the convention. According to the Web of Science eleven citations has been detected. Summary impact factor for 5 years is 10,1. He is interested especially in radiobiology and stereotactic radiotherapy.
A. Binarova was born in Opava in 1985. She graduated from University of Ostrava in 2007 and received bachelor degree in Radiotherapy, Nuclear Medicine and Radio diagnostic Method. After graduation she has started work as RTT in Department of Oncology, in University Hospital Ostrava, and as external lector at Medical Faculty of University of Ostrava. Since 2010 she cooperates with ESTRO and IAEA to establish the national education and research program for RTTs. Also she is an author of Radiotherapy student book, specialized articles and more than 20 abstracted contributions, and she has organized two international courses focused on modern oncological treatment modalities.
Acknowledgements
This work and the contribution were also supported by the Grant Agency of Czech Republic—GAČR 102/08/1429 project entitled “the safety and security of networked embedded system applications”.
The work and the contributions were supported by the SP2015/179 ‘Biomedical Engineering systems XI’ project, and this paper was produced within the framework of the project entitled “Support research and development in the Moravian-Silesian Region 2014 DT 1—Research Teams” (RRC/07/2014). It was financed from the budget of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
This work was partially supported by the Science and Research Fund 2014 of the Moravia-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.