Reusable Electrical Activity of the Heart Monitoring Patch for Mobile/Ubiquitous Healthcare

In order to monitor electrical activity of the heart during daily life, we present an electrode of a medical instrument system which is able to measure the body surface potential difference by minimizing the electrode distance. The designed electrode is composed of concentric circles. It was made fr...

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Published in:Journal of medical systems 2009-02, Vol.33 (1), p.41-46
Main Authors: Lee, Jeong-Whan, Lee, Kang-Hwi, Lee, Young-Jae, Hong, Lee-Yon, Kim, Dong-Jun, Kim, Kyeong-Seop, Lee, Bongsoo, Lee, Myoungho
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory - instrumentation
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory - methods
Electrodes
Electrophysiological Phenomena
Health Informatics
Health Sciences
Heart
Heart - physiology
Heart Diseases - diagnosis
Humans
Measurement
Medical equipment
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Models, Cardiovascular
Original Paper
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Statistics for Life Sciences
Studies
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Summary:In order to monitor electrical activity of the heart during daily life, we present an electrode of a medical instrument system which is able to measure the body surface potential difference by minimizing the electrode distance. The designed electrode is composed of concentric circles. It was made from the basis of the Laplacian equation, and implemented on PCB coated with gold. So that it does not cause the uncomfortable feeling of contact and possible skin troubles which are typical shortcoming of the conventional ECG measurement. The suggested method utilized three concentric circles on FR-4 substrate, so new amplifier design regarding measuring of small biological signal, is considered which has the characteristics of asymmetric input impedance since the area of concentric circular ring electrodes is not identical. Thereby, electrical activity of the heart was obtained successfully. However, its signal quality is a little bit degraded and the motion artifact still remains as a major problem as is in conventional electrocardiography measurement. Certainly stable measurement setup was needed to reduce the motion artifact originated from variation in static electricity between skin and electrode interfaces.
ISSN:0148-5598
1573-689X
DOI:10.1007/s10916-008-9162-8