A low-power CMOS front-end for photoplethysmographic signal acquisition with robust DC photocurrent rejection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-288

  Wong, Alex K Y ^a,b   Pun, Kong Pang ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a,b,c   Leung, Ka Nang ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Current steering; Dc photocurrent rejection; Photoplethysmogram; Pulsed light source; Ultralow cutoff frequency filter

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WAVE FILTERS;

CURRENT-STEERING; DC PHOTOCURRENT REJECTION; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM; PULSED LIGHT SOURCE; ULTRALOW CUTOFF FREQUENCY FILTER;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

EID: 57049109272     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2003429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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