title: Development of a system to measure local measurement conditions around textile electrodes.
abstract: The three main influence factors on the interface between textile electrode an skin are: temperature, contact pressure and relative humidity. This paper presents first results of a prototype, which measures these local measurement conditions around textile electrodes. The wearable prototype is a data acquisition system based on a microcontroller with a flexible sensor sleeve. Validation measurements included variation of ambient temperature, contact pressures and sleeve material. Results show a good correlation with data found in literature.
authors.affiliation: Philips Chair for Medical Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. s.kim@hia.rwth-achen.de
authors.forename: Saim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Joana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roethlingshoefer
authors.forename: Steffen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leonhard
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004566:Electrodes; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D006813:Humidity; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013784:Textiles; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers