How does the Actiwave work?
The Actiwave monitors have 1mm diameter pins to which Cephalon supplies leads with touch-proof contacts. Either lead set will attach directly to any ECG/EKG, EEG, or EMG electrodes.
Physiological signals are passed from the electrodes through the leads to an on-board amplifier. A miniature, efficient microcontroller digitises the amplified physiological signal and stores the digitised waveform in memory. At the end of the recording session, the leads are disconnected from the Actiwave recorder and the recorder is connected to a dock. The Actiwave software transfers data from the recorder to the PC via the dock and USB cable.
Actiwave data is stored on the PC in European Data Format (EDF+) files.