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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Electrode Humidification Design for Artifact Reduction in Capacitive ECG Measurements.

Yue Tang, Ronghui Chang, Limin Zhang, Feng Yan, Haowen Ma, Xiaofeng Bu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yue TangSchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.
Ronghui ChangSchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.
Limin ZhangSchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0933-8609
Feng YanSchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.
Haowen MaSchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.
Xiaofeng BuSchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China.
Nanjing University · CN

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China 2016YFA0202102National Nature Science Foundation Program of China 91850204 and 11304152
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For wearable capacitive electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition, capacitive electrodes may cause severe motion artifacts due to the relatively large friction between the electrodes and the dielectrics. In some studies, water can effectively suppress motion artifacts, but these studies lack a complete analysis of how water can suppress motion artifacts. In this paper, the effect of water on charge decay of textile electrode is studied systematically, and an electrode controllable humidification design using ultrasonic atomization is proposed to suppress motion artifacts. Compared with the existing electrode humidification designs, the proposed electrode humidification design can be controlled by a program to suppress motion artifacts at different ambient humidity, and can be highly integrated for wearable application. Firstly, the charge decay mode of the textile electrode is given and it is found that the process of free water evaporation at an appropriate free water content can be the dominant way of triboelectric charge dissipation. Secondly, theoretical analysis and experiment verification both illustrate that water contained in electrodes can accelerate the decay of triboelectric charge through the free water evaporation path. Finally, a capacitive electrode controllable humidification design is proposed by applying integrated ultrasonic atomization to generate atomized drops and spray them onto textile electrodes to accelerate the decay of triboelectric charge and suppress motion artifacts. The performance of the proposed design is verified by the experiment results, which shows that the proposed design can effectively suppress motion artifacts and maintain the stability of signal quality at both low and high ambient humidity. The signal-to-noise ratio of the proposed design is 33.32 dB higher than that of the non-humidified design at 25% relative humidity and is 22.67 dB higher than that of non-humidified electrodes at 65% relative humidity.

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ArtifactsElectrocardiographySignal Processing, Computer-AssistedElectrodesMotioncapacitive ECGhumidification designmotion artifacttextile electrodetriboelectric charge

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PMID32570924
PMCPMC7349487
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