Title
Performance Assessment Of Dry Electrodes For Wearable Long Term Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring: Skin-Electrode Impedance Spectroscopy
Abstract
The use of wearable dry sensors for recording long term ECG signals is a requirement for certain studies of heart rhythm. Knowledge of the skin-electrode electrical performance of dry electrodes is necessary when seeking to improve various processing stages for signal quality enhancement. In this paper, methods for the assessment of dry skin-electrode impedance (ZSE) and its modelling are presented. Measurements were carried out on selected electrode materials such as silver, stainless steel, AgCl (dry) and polyurethane. These had ZSE values between 500 k Omega and 1 MO within the main ECG frequency range (1 Hz - 100 Hz); in contrast to plain iron material which had a significantly higher impedance. However, in spite of the high ZSE values, open bandwidth ECG traces were of acceptable quality and stability; with dry AgCl material offering the best ECG trace performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037209
2017 39TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Field
DocType
Volume
Biomedical engineering,Computer science,Wearable computer,Signal quality,Electrical impedance,Electronic engineering,Electrode impedance,Dielectric spectroscopy,Cardiac rhythm monitoring,Spectroscopy,Electrode
Conference
2017
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1094-687X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Bosnjak100.68
Kennedy, A.232.56
Pedro Linares300.34
Maira Borges400.34
McLaughlin, J.5411.37
Omar J. Escalona600.34