Bioelectrical impedance techniques in medicine Part I: Bioimpedance measurement first section: General concepts

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4-6, 1997, Pages 223-255

  Valentinuzzi, Max E ^a  

^a Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biologicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Blood resistivity; Electric safety; Electrode electrolyte interface; Impedance diagrams; Impedance measuring circuits; Permittivity; Resistivity; Transducers; Warburg's laws

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BLOOD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MEDICINE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PERMITTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TECHNIQUES; IMPEDANCE DIAGRAMS; IMPEDANCE MEASURING CIRCUITS; WARBURG LAWS;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BLOOD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; IMPEDANCE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TECHNIQUE; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0030964357     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/critrevbiomedeng.v24.i4-6.10     Document Type: Article

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