Triboelectricity in capacitive biopotential measurements

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1268-1277

  Wartzek, Tobias ^a   Lammersen, Thomas ^a   Eilebrecht, Benjamin ^a   Walter, Marian ^a   Leonhardt, Steffen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifacts; capacitive electrocardiography (ECG); electrodes; modeling; triboelectricity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACTS; BIOPOTENTIAL MEASUREMENT; CAPACITIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY (ECG); COMMON MODE INTERFERENCE; CONTACT ELECTRIFICATION; ELECTRODE DESIGN; ELECTROSTATIC EFFECT; MODELING; PROPER DESIGN; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; STRONG MOTION; TIME-PERIODS;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAPACITIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE BODY INTERFACE; ELECTRON; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TRIBOELECTRICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FRICTION; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; METALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEXTILES; WOOD;

EID: 79955528006     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2100393     Document Type: Article

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