Title :
Attachable active sensor array
Author :
Ruano, Melanie A. ; Lu, Chih-Cheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Miami Univ., Coral Gables, FL, USA
Abstract :
A noninvasive technique has been developed to acquire distributed cardiac electrical activity by measuring the surface Laplacian ECG of the heart. The goal is to design an active sensor array that can be attached to the human thorax with uniform pressure. The final design consists of an array of 30 active concentric ring sensors and a lead II ECG. It must have good contact with the chest surface for the acquisition of the Laplacian ECG signal and at the same time be user friendly
Keywords :
biomedical electrodes; electrocardiography; active concentric ring sensors; attachable active sensor array; distributed cardiac electrical activity; human thorax; inflatable bladder; lead II ECG; noninvasive technique; sensor vest; surface Laplacian ECG; uniform pressure; user friendly; Batteries; Biosensors; Bladder; Computer displays; Electrocardiography; Heart; Laplace equations; Sensor arrays; Sternum; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803948
