Impact of Skin–Electrode Interface on Electrocardiogram Measurements Using Conductive Textile Electrodes

Taji, Bahareh; Shirmohammadi, Shervin; Groza, Voicu; Batkin, Izmail

doi:10.1109/tim.2013.2289072

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“…Conductive patterns of thin stainless steel, copper, or other metal wires are embroidered onto textile fabrics [25]. Screen printing is a popular method due to its relatively low cost and became possible by the development of polymer-based inks, which allow low curing temperatures compatible with textile substrates [26].…”

Section: Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes (Tcres)mentioning

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Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes: Influence of Position and Electrode Size on Cardiac Activity Monitoring

et al. 2018

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Continuous ECG monitoring can play an important role in the rapid detection of pathological signatures and arrhythmias. Current systems use electrodes with limitations in wearable long-term applications and spatial selectivity. In this work, two sizes of textile concentric ring electrodes (TCRE42 and TCRE50) were developed and tested for monitoring cardiac activity. The low-cost devices were found to be easy to implement and to potentially have the advantages of textile electrodes for being lightweight, stretchable, adjustable, washable, and long-lasting. Both TCREs yielded similar signal detectability of different ECG waves. The optimal P wave recording area (OPA) for detecting signals was on the upper right chest. Although the absolute signal amplitude of TCRE records was smaller than that of lead II, normalized amplitude in the OPA is similar for T wave and higher for P wave. The TCREs also allowed better analysis of P wave morphology and were able to detect more right and left atrial depolarization waves. TCRE48 showed slightly better detectability, normalized amplitude, and spatial selectivity than TCRE50 within the OPA. The authors consider the TCRE suitable for use in ubiquitous mobile health care systems, especially for atrial activity monitoring and diagnosis.

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Section: Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes (Tcres)mentioning

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Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes: Influence of Position and Electrode Size on Cardiac Activity Monitoring

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“…The motion artefact interference may be caused by eventual pulling from the cables, but the main source is due to the change of potential across the epidermis during skin deformation by stretching and/or induced by applied pressure [36]. Electrical equivalent models of the electrode-skin interface of gel and textile electrodes have been proposed [31,32,[35][36][37]. The gel electrode model includes the contribution of an electrolyte half-cell potential and the epidermis potential.…”

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Design and Evaluation of Novel Textile Wearable Systems for the Surveillance of Vital Signals

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Silva

Miguel

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This article addresses the design, development, and evaluation of t-shirt prototypes that embed novel textile sensors for the capture of cardio and respiratory signals. The sensors are connected through textile interconnects to either an embedded custom-designed data acquisition and transmission unit or to snap fastener terminals for connection to external monitoring devices. The performance of the t-shirt prototype is evaluated in terms of signal-to-noise ratio amplitude and signal interference caused by baseline wander and motion artifacts, through laboratory tests with subjects in standing and walking conditions. Performance tests were also conducted in a hospital environment using a t-shirt prototype connected to a commercial three-channel Holter monitoring device. The textile sensors and interconnects were realized with the assistance of an industrial sixneedle digital embroidery tool and their resistance to wear addressed with normalized tests of laundering and abrasion. The performance of these wearable systems is discussed, and pathways and methods for their optimization are highlighted.

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“…The proposed weave electrode, in this case, is the unknown electrode. is located at the center between the two reference electrodes; suppose that 1 = 2 [7]. Since the same reference electrode was used, it is assumed that…”

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“…Electrocardiogram (ECG) has a noteworthy significance in all biosignals from human body. ECG contains consequential information about the individual heart and performance [7] and is a main investigated element for people with cardiovascular diseases and is a standard process in recent cardiac medical care [8,9]. To date, a large amount of efforts have been accomplished to formulate the approaches for easy, comfortable, accurate, flexible, and continuous monitoring of ECG signals from human body.…”

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Performance Evaluation of Plain Weave and Honeycomb Weave Electrodes for Human ECG Monitoring

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Long-time monitoring of physiological parameters can scrutinize human health conditions so as to use electrocardiogram (ECG) for diagnosis of some human's chronic cardiovascular diseases. The continuous monitoring requires the wearable electrodes to be breathable, flexible, biocompatible, and skin-affinity friendly. Weave electrodes are innovative materials to supply these potential performances. In this paper, four conductive weave electrodes in plain and honeycomb weave patterns were developed to monitor human ECG signals. A wearable belt platform was developed to mount such electrodes for acquisition of ECG signals using a backend electronic circuit and a signal transfer unit. The performance of weave ECG electrodes was evaluated in terms of skin-electrode contacting impedance, comfortability, ECG electrical characteristics, and signal fidelity. Such performances were then compared with the values from Ag/AgCl reference electrode. The test results showed that lower skin-electrode impedance, higher R-peak amplitude, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value were obtained with the increased density of conductive filaments in weave and honeycomb weave electrode presented higher comfort but poorer signal quality of ECG. This study inspires an acceptable way of weave electrodes in long-and real-time of human biosignal monitoring.

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Impact of Skin–Electrode Interface on Electrocardiogram Measurements Using Conductive Textile Electrodes

Cited by 155 publications

References 27 publications

Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes: Influence of Position and Electrode Size on Cardiac Activity Monitoring

Textile Concentric Ring Electrodes: Influence of Position and Electrode Size on Cardiac Activity Monitoring

Design and Evaluation of Novel Textile Wearable Systems for the Surveillance of Vital Signals

Performance Evaluation of Plain Weave and Honeycomb Weave Electrodes for Human ECG Monitoring

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