Analog integrated circuits design for processing physiological signals

IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 93-105

  Li, Yan ^a,b   Poon, Carmen C Y ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; low frequency; low noise; low power; medical devices

Indexed keywords

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW NOISE; LOW POWER; MEDICAL DEVICES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); CUTOFF FREQUENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650339649     PISSN: 19373333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2010.2082521     Document Type: Article

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