Detection of respiratory waveforms using non-contact electrodes during bathing

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 911-914

  Nakajima, Kazuki ^a   Sekine, Katsuhisa ^b   Yamazaki, Katsuya ^a   Tampo, Atsushi ^a   Omote, Yuuichirou ^b   Fukunaga, Hiroshi ^c   Yagi, Yasuko ^c   Ishizu, Kyoji ^c   Nakajima, Masanori ^c   Tobe, Kazuyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Masashi ^a   Sasaki, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATH WATER; COMPOSITE SYSTEMS; ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; FREQUENCY RANGES; MODEL SIMULATION; NON-CONTACT; RUBBER STRAIN; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME DEPENDENCE; WAVE FORMS;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAGES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BATH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMERSION; IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BATHS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650802414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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