EMFi material as wearable heart rate sensor for night time recordings

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-149

  Vehkaoja, Antti ^a   Salpavaara, Timo ^a   Verho, Jarmo ^a   Lekkala, Jukka ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECG SIGNALS; ELECTRET MATERIALS; ELECTRO MECHANICAL FILMS; HEART RATE SENSORS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RATES; MEAN ERRORS; NIGHT TIME; ONLINE PROCESSING; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; RECOGNITION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSING ELEMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

HEART; POLYETHERIMIDES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SENSORS;

EID: 79951889141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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