TY - GEN
T1 - Electrode comparison for textile-integrated electrocardiogram and impedance pneumography measurement
AU - Tuohimäki, Katariina
AU - Mahdiani, S.
AU - Jeyhani, V.
AU - Vehkaoja, A.
AU - Iso-Ketola, P.
AU - Vanhala, J.
AU - Viik, J.
AU - Mäntysalo, M.
N1 - jufoid=58152
INT=TUT-BMT,"Mahdiani, S."
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Wearable electronics is a quickly broadening category in sports, wellbeing and entertainment products. Also, fully textile-integrated electronics is used increasingly to improve user experience. Medical industry is interested in exploiting, especially the latter sub-category of wearable electronics in long-term home care. In this study, we report a textile-integrated electrocardiography (ECG) and impedance pneumography (IP) measurement system. The performance of the system is evaluated by comparing the measurement accuracy for heart rate and respiration rate obtained with different electrode types and different measurement methods. Three electrode types: disposable, textile, and printed electrodes, are investigated and both, bipolar and tetrapolar measurement methods are compared by using a modified commercial evaluation board. Disposable electrodes provide the least noisy signal and the most stable results. However, the skin irritation caused by these electrodes prevents their use in long-term monitoring. The textile and printed electrodes did not seem to cause similar skin irritation. From the two measuring techniques, tetrapolar measuring method had higher noise levels, but heart rate and breathing were estimated with better accuracy compared to bipolar measuring method.
AB - Wearable electronics is a quickly broadening category in sports, wellbeing and entertainment products. Also, fully textile-integrated electronics is used increasingly to improve user experience. Medical industry is interested in exploiting, especially the latter sub-category of wearable electronics in long-term home care. In this study, we report a textile-integrated electrocardiography (ECG) and impedance pneumography (IP) measurement system. The performance of the system is evaluated by comparing the measurement accuracy for heart rate and respiration rate obtained with different electrode types and different measurement methods. Three electrode types: disposable, textile, and printed electrodes, are investigated and both, bipolar and tetrapolar measurement methods are compared by using a modified commercial evaluation board. Disposable electrodes provide the least noisy signal and the most stable results. However, the skin irritation caused by these electrodes prevents their use in long-term monitoring. The textile and printed electrodes did not seem to cause similar skin irritation. From the two measuring techniques, tetrapolar measuring method had higher noise levels, but heart rate and breathing were estimated with better accuracy compared to bipolar measuring method.
KW - Electrocardiogram
KW - Impedance pneumography
KW - Medical analog front-end
KW - Textile-integrated electronics
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_76
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_76
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85021707351
SN - 9789811051210
VL - 65
T3 - IFMBE Proceedings
SP - 302
EP - 305
BT - EMBEC and NBC 2017 - Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference EMBEC 2017 and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, NBC 2017
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC) and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC)
Y2 - 1 January 1900
ER -