Epidermal impedance sensing sheets for precision hydration assessment and spatial mapping

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2848-2857

  Huang, Xian ^a   Cheng, Huanyu ^b   Chen, Kaile ^a   Zhang, Yilin ^a   Zhang, Yihui ^b,c   Liu, Yuhao ^a   Zhu, Chenqi ^a   Ouyang, Shao Chi ^a   Kong, Gil Woo ^a   Yu, Cunjiang ^a   Huang, Yonggang ^b   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Depth profiling; epidermal electronics; hydration sensing; multiplexing; spatial mapping

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE ELECTRODES; IMPEDANCE SENSING; IMPEDANCE SENSORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; REGIONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL MAPPING;

DEPTH PROFILING; MAPPING; MULTIPLEXING; SENSORS;

HYDRATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; HYDRATION; IMPEDANCE; MONITORING; SKIN CARE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

BODY WATER; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; EPIDERMIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884548192     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2264879     Document Type: Article

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