Improvement of lock-in electrical bio-impedance analyzer for implantable medical devices

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 968-974

  Min, Mart ^a   Parve, Toomas ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Complex bio impedance; Impedance measurement; Implantable devices; Pulse wave signals; Suppression of higher harmonics; Synchronous demodulation

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

COMPLEX BIO-IMPEDANCE; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; PULSE WAVE SIGNALS; SYNCHRONOUS DEMODULATION;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34248999400     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.894172     Document Type: Article

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