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Title: Digital filtering in a disease detection system

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OSTI ID:5394617

A low-pass, nonrecursive digital filter has been designed to process data in an automated enzyme immunoassay system. The software implemented filter has been installed in the Intel 80/10 system controller. A low-speed sample rate of three samples per second allowed the filter algorithm to be programmed in the high-level FORTRAN language with a resultant execution speed of 0.6 seconds per day array. Fourier techniques are used to derive a zero phase shift filter algorithm from a frequency domain prototype. The resulting alogrithm is modified by a Hamming window to reduce transients and Gibbs phenomenon oscillations. Observations on the effectiveness of the filter under full system operation indicate a 90% data recovery rate.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5394617
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-83-3423; CONF-831254-2; ON: DE84003820
Resource Relation:
Conference: Agricultural electronics - 1983 and beyond conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 11 Dec 1983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English