Performance evaluation of five types of Ag/AgCl bio-electrodes for cerebral electrical impedance tomography

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2059-2067

  Xu, Shiwei ^a   Dai, Meng ^a   Xu, Canhua ^a   Chen, Chaoshuang ^a   Tang, Mengxing ^b   Shi, Xuetao ^a   Dong, Xiuzhen ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact impedance; Electrical impedance tomography; Electrode system; SNR; Stability; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

CONTACT IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE SYSTEM; SNR; UNIFORMITY;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SLOPE STABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BRAIN;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SILVER; SILVER CHLORIDE; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER; SILVER COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958809050     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0302-9     Document Type: Article

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