Heart rate detection from plantar bioimpedance measurements

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1163-1167

  González Landaeta, Rafael ^a,b   Casas, Oscar ^a   Pallàs Areny, Ramon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Coherent demodulation; Heart rate detection; Plantar bioimpedance; Synchronous sampling

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC REACTANCE MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COHERENT DEMODULATION; HEART RATE DETECTION; PLANTAR BIOIMPEDANCE; SYNCHRONOUS SAMPLING;

CARDIOLOGY;

ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AMPLIFIERS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39749194436     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.906516     Document Type: Article

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