Investigating the causes of biosensor SNR decrease by means of fault tree analysis

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1395-1406

  Batzias, Fragiskos A ^a   Siontorou, Christina C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biosensors; Fault detection; Fault tree analysis (FTA); Fuzzy FTA; Signal to noise ratio (SNR) decrease

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; FUZZY FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO DECREASE;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 23344444803     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.851056     Document Type: Article

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