A wearable 8-channel active-electrode EEG/ETI acquisition system for body area networks

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2005-2016

  Xu, Jiawei ^a   Mitra, Srinjoy ^b   Matsumoto, Akinori ^c   Patki, Shrishail ^a   Van Hoof, Chris ^b   Makinwa, Kofi A A ^d   Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^b  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active electrode; chopper amplifier; dry electrode; EEG monitoring; electrode tissue impedance

Indexed keywords

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS;

ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; ACTIVE ELECTRODES; ANALOGUE SIGNALS; BODYAREA NETWORKS (BAN); DRY ELECTRODE; EEG MONITORING; EEG RECORDING; EEG SIGNALS; ELECTRODE-TISSUE IMPEDANCES; SIGNAL PROCESSOR;

CHOPPER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84906946394     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2325557     Document Type: Article

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