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Electrical characterization of conductive textile materials and its evaluation as electrodes for venous occlusion plethysmography
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2013-07Registro en:
Goy, Carla Belen; Dominguez, Juan Martin; Gomez Lopez, Maria de Los Angeles; Madrid, Rossana Elena; Herrera de Olivera, Myriam Cristina; Electrical characterization of conductive textile materials and its evaluation as electrodes for venous occlusion plethysmography; Informa Healthcare; Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology; 37; 6; 7-2013; 359-367
1464-522X
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CONICET
Autor
Goy, Carla Belen
Dominguez, Juan Martin
Gomez Lopez, Maria de Los Angeles
Madrid, Rossana Elena
Herrera de Olivera, Myriam Cristina
Resumen
The ambulatory monitoring of biosignals involves the use of sensors, electrodes, actuators, processing tools and wireless communication modules. When a garment includes these elements with the purpose of recording vital signs and responding to specifics situations it is call a "Smart Wearable System". Over the last years several authors have suggested that conductive textile material (e-textiles) could perform as electrode for these systems. This work aims at implementing an electrical characterization of e-textiles and an evaluation of their ability to act as textile electrodes for lower extremity venous occlusion plethysmography (LEVOP). The e-textile electrical characterization is carried out using two experimental setups (in vitro evaluation). Besides, LEVOP records are obtained from healthy volunteers (in vivo evaluation). Standard Ag/AgCl electrodes are used for comparison in all tests. Results shown that the proposed e-textiles are suitable for LEVOP recording and a good agreement between evaluations (in vivo and in vitro) is found.