Electrical Properties of Bioelectrodes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-31, Issue 12, 1984, Pages 827-832

  Schwan, Herman P ^a,b   Sun, Hun H ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; MATHEMATICS; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - INTERACTIVE OPERATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES - ANALYSIS; ELECTRODES - MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ELECTROLYTES - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOELECTRODE INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRODE-ELECTROLYTE INTERFACE; FRACTIONAL POWER POLE; LIMIT LAW OF LINEARITY; NONLINEAR SATURATION MODELS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0021645221     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1984.325245     Document Type: Article

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