Impact of skin-electrode interface on electrocardiogram measurements using conductive textile electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1412-1422

  Taji, Bahareh ^a   Shirmohammadi, Shervin ^a   Groza, Voicu ^a   Batkin, Izmail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance; Biomedical electrodes; Electrocardiography; Impedance measurement; Pressure effects

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODES; INSTRUMENTS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEXTILES;

BIO-IMPEDANCE; BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODES; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING DEVICE; CONDUCTIVE TEXTILES; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; INTERFACE CHARACTERISTIC; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84903730881     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2289072     Document Type: Article

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