Conductive polymer foam surface improves the performance of a capacitive EEG electrode

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3422-3431

  Baek, Hyun Jae ^a   Lee, Hong Ji ^a   Lim, Yong Gyu ^b   Park, Kwang Suk ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Sangji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomedical electrodes; capacitive sensors; electroencephalography (EEG); polymer foams

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODES; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; CONTACT AREAS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EEG SIGNALS; ELECTRODE SURFACES; ELECTRODE-SKIN IMPEDANCE; NON-INTRUSIVE; POLYMER FOAMS; RIGID SURFACES; VOLTAGE GAIN;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOAM; HAIR; MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; SCALP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADULT; CLOTHING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870531965     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2215032     Document Type: Article

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