An 11 μ w, two-electrode transimpedance biosignal amplifier with active current feedback stabilization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93-100

  Inan, Omer Tolga ^a   Kovacs, Gregory T A ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosignal amplifier; Electrocardiogram; Portable physiological monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CURRENT; AMPLIFIER SATURATION; BASELINE DRIFT; BIO-SIGNAL AMPLIFIER; BIOSIGNALS; COMMONMODE; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; GAIN-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS; INPUT VOLTAGES; MICROPOWER; NOISE LEVELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; POWER CONSUMPTION; SKIN RESISTANCE; SUPPLY RAIL; TRANSIMPEDANCE; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS; TWO-ELECTRODE SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE GAIN; VOLTAGE SIGNALS;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; PATIENT MONITORING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950301111     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2009.2032096     Document Type: Article

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