Noncontact ECG recording system with real time capacitance measurement for motion artifact reduction

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 617-625

  Torfs, Tom ^a   Chen, Yun Hsuan ^a   Kim, Hyejung ^a   Yazicioglu, Refet Firat ^a  

^a Body Area Networks Department Omec   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive filters; biomedical electrodes; capacitive sensors; electrocardiography; wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES;

BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODES; ECG RECORDING; ELECTRODE MOTION; FILTERING ALGORITHM; MOTION ARTIFACT REDUCTION; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING; WEARABLE SENSORS;

SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84910129494     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2014.2359053     Document Type: Article

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