Correlation between electrode-tissue impedance and motion artifact in biopotential recordings

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3373-3383

  Buxi, Dilpreet ^a   Kim, Sunyoung ^b   Van Helleputte, Nick ^b   Altini, Marco ^a   Wijsman, Jacqueline ^a   Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^b   Penders, Julien ^a   Van Hoof, Chris ^b  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Correlation; electrocardiogram; electrode tissue impedance; motion artifact

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANALOG FRONT-END; BIOPOTENTIALS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; ECG RECORDING; ECG SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS; ECG SIGNALS; ELECTRODE DESIGN; MOTION ARTIFACT; ON THE GO; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; SKIN-ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; ULTRA-LOW POWER; VALIDATION STUDY; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; HEALTH CARE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; TISSUE;

SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84870556145     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2221163     Document Type: Article

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