title: Novel dry electrodes for ECG monitoring.
abstract: The development, fabrication and characterization of two novel dry bioelectrodes--conductive and capacitive ones--for biopotential monitoring are presented. The new electrodes have the potential to improve the applicability of dry electrodes in ambulant recording of ECG by reducing motion artifacts as well as the contact impedance to the skin. Furthermore, a passive filter network is integrated into the new electrodes to suppress slow offset fluctuation of the ECG signal caused e.g. by motions like breathing or changes in the electrode-skin interface properties. Compared to standard gel electrodes these new electrodes exhibit equivalent and superior contact impedances and biosignals. The integrated filter network effectively suppresses fluctuating offset potentials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Micro System Technology, Hamburg University of Technology, Eissendorfer Strasse 42, 21073 Hamburg, Germany. anna.karilainen@tuhh.de
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gruetzmann
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D054849:Cardiac Electrophysiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D004548:Elasticity; D025802:Electric Capacitance; D017097:Electric Impedance; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans