A 160 μw 8-channel active electrode system for EEG monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 555-567

  Xu, Jiawei ^a   Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^b   Grundlehner, Bernard ^a   Harpe, Pieter ^c   Makinwa, Kofi A A ^d   Van Hoof, Chris ^b  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active electrode; Chopper modulation; Common mode feedback (CMFB); Common mode rejection ratio (CMRR); Electrode offset; Electroencephalography (EEG); Input impedance; Instrumentation amplifier (IA); Ripple reduction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ELECTRODES; CHOPPER MODULATION; COMMON MODE FEEDBACK; COMMON-MODE REJECTION RATIOS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER; RIPPLE REDUCTION;

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHOPPER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84855350473     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2170985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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