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Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes
Traditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32927651 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185156 |
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author | Lessard-Tremblay, Mathieu Weeks, Joshua Morelli, Laura Cowan, Glenn Gagnon, Ghyslain Zednik, Ricardo J. |
author_facet | Lessard-Tremblay, Mathieu Weeks, Joshua Morelli, Laura Cowan, Glenn Gagnon, Ghyslain Zednik, Ricardo J. |
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description | Traditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in the integration method, is well suited for large-scale manufacturing, is easy to disinfect in clinical settings and exhibits better performance over a comparable rigid contactless electrode. The novel flexible electrode meets the frequency requirement for clinically important QRS complex detection (0.67–5 Hz) and its performance is improved over rigid contactless electrode across all measured metrics as it maintains lower cut-off frequency, higher source capacitance and higher pass-band gain when characterized over a wide spectrum of patient morphologies. The results presented in this article suggest that the novel flexible electrode could be used in a medical device for cECG acquisition and medical diagnosis. The novel design proves also to be less sensitive to motion than a reference rigid electrode. We therefore anticipate it can represent an important step towards improving the repeatability of cECG methods while requiring less post-processing. This would help making cECG a viable method for remote cardiac health monitoring. |
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spelling | pubmed-75708692020-10-28 Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes Lessard-Tremblay, Mathieu Weeks, Joshua Morelli, Laura Cowan, Glenn Gagnon, Ghyslain Zednik, Ricardo J. Sensors (Basel) Letter Traditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in the integration method, is well suited for large-scale manufacturing, is easy to disinfect in clinical settings and exhibits better performance over a comparable rigid contactless electrode. The novel flexible electrode meets the frequency requirement for clinically important QRS complex detection (0.67–5 Hz) and its performance is improved over rigid contactless electrode across all measured metrics as it maintains lower cut-off frequency, higher source capacitance and higher pass-band gain when characterized over a wide spectrum of patient morphologies. The results presented in this article suggest that the novel flexible electrode could be used in a medical device for cECG acquisition and medical diagnosis. The novel design proves also to be less sensitive to motion than a reference rigid electrode. We therefore anticipate it can represent an important step towards improving the repeatability of cECG methods while requiring less post-processing. This would help making cECG a viable method for remote cardiac health monitoring. MDPI 2020-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7570869/ /pubmed/32927651 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185156 Text en © 2020 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 (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Letter Lessard-Tremblay, Mathieu Weeks, Joshua Morelli, Laura Cowan, Glenn Gagnon, Ghyslain Zednik, Ricardo J. Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
title | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
title_full | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
title_fullStr | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
title_full_unstemmed | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
title_short | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
title_sort | contactless capacitive electrocardiography using hybrid flexible printed electrodes |
topic | Letter |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32927651 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185156 |
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