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Embroidered Electrode with Silver/Titanium Coating for Long-Term ECG Monitoring

For the long-time monitoring of electrocardiograms, electrodes must be skin-friendly and non-irritating, but in addition they must deliver leads without artifacts even if the skin is dry and the body is moving. Today's adhesive conducting gel electrodes are not suitable for such applications. W...

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Autores principales: Weder, Markus, Hegemann, Dirk, Amberg, Martin, Hess, Markus, Boesel, Luciano F., Abächerli, Roger, Meyer, Veronika R., Rossi, René M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25599424
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150101750
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author Weder, Markus
Hegemann, Dirk
Amberg, Martin
Hess, Markus
Boesel, Luciano F.
Abächerli, Roger
Meyer, Veronika R.
Rossi, René M.
author_facet Weder, Markus
Hegemann, Dirk
Amberg, Martin
Hess, Markus
Boesel, Luciano F.
Abächerli, Roger
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Rossi, René M.
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description For the long-time monitoring of electrocardiograms, electrodes must be skin-friendly and non-irritating, but in addition they must deliver leads without artifacts even if the skin is dry and the body is moving. Today's adhesive conducting gel electrodes are not suitable for such applications. We have developed an embroidered textile electrode from polyethylene terephthalate yarn which is plasma-coated with silver for electrical conductivity and with an ultra-thin titanium layer on top for passivation. Two of these electrodes are embedded into a breast belt. They are moisturized with a very low amount of water vapor from an integrated reservoir. The combination of silver, titanium and water vapor results in an excellent electrode chemistry. With this belt the long-time monitoring of electrocardiography (ECG) is possible at rest as well as when the patient is moving.
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spelling pubmed-43271012015-02-23 Embroidered Electrode with Silver/Titanium Coating for Long-Term ECG Monitoring Weder, Markus Hegemann, Dirk Amberg, Martin Hess, Markus Boesel, Luciano F. Abächerli, Roger Meyer, Veronika R. Rossi, René M. Sensors (Basel) Article For the long-time monitoring of electrocardiograms, electrodes must be skin-friendly and non-irritating, but in addition they must deliver leads without artifacts even if the skin is dry and the body is moving. Today's adhesive conducting gel electrodes are not suitable for such applications. We have developed an embroidered textile electrode from polyethylene terephthalate yarn which is plasma-coated with silver for electrical conductivity and with an ultra-thin titanium layer on top for passivation. Two of these electrodes are embedded into a breast belt. They are moisturized with a very low amount of water vapor from an integrated reservoir. The combination of silver, titanium and water vapor results in an excellent electrode chemistry. With this belt the long-time monitoring of electrocardiography (ECG) is possible at rest as well as when the patient is moving. MDPI 2015-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4327101/ /pubmed/25599424 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150101750 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rossi, René M.
Embroidered Electrode with Silver/Titanium Coating for Long-Term ECG Monitoring
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25599424
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150101750
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