Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes
Traditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in...
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| author | Mathieu Lessard-Tremblay Joshua Weeks Laura Morelli Glenn Cowan Ghyslain Gagnon Ricardo J. Zednik |
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| description | Traditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in the integration method, is well suited for large-scale manufacturing, is easy to disinfect in clinical settings and exhibits better performance over a comparable rigid contactless electrode. The novel flexible electrode meets the frequency requirement for clinically important QRS complex detection (0.67–5 Hz) and its performance is improved over rigid contactless electrode across all measured metrics as it maintains lower cut-off frequency, higher source capacitance and higher pass-band gain when characterized over a wide spectrum of patient morphologies. The results presented in this article suggest that the novel flexible electrode could be used in a medical device for cECG acquisition and medical diagnosis. The novel design proves also to be less sensitive to motion than a reference rigid electrode. We therefore anticipate it can represent an important step towards improving the repeatability of cECG methods while requiring less post-processing. This would help making cECG a viable method for remote cardiac health monitoring. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d1d5f01403df40a6a54b4e33b67b8a812023-11-20T13:11:32ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-09-012018515610.3390/s20185156Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed ElectrodesMathieu Lessard-Tremblay0Joshua Weeks1Laura Morelli2Glenn Cowan3Ghyslain Gagnon4Ricardo J. Zednik5École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, CanadaSIG.NUM Preemptive Healthcare, Inc., Montréal, QC H3K 1G6, CanadaÉcole de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, CanadaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, CanadaÉcole de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, CanadaÉcole de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, CanadaTraditional capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) electrodes suffer from limited patient comfort, difficulty of disinfection and low signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the challenge of integrating them in wearables. A novel hybrid flexible cECG electrode was developed that offers high versatility in the integration method, is well suited for large-scale manufacturing, is easy to disinfect in clinical settings and exhibits better performance over a comparable rigid contactless electrode. The novel flexible electrode meets the frequency requirement for clinically important QRS complex detection (0.67–5 Hz) and its performance is improved over rigid contactless electrode across all measured metrics as it maintains lower cut-off frequency, higher source capacitance and higher pass-band gain when characterized over a wide spectrum of patient morphologies. The results presented in this article suggest that the novel flexible electrode could be used in a medical device for cECG acquisition and medical diagnosis. The novel design proves also to be less sensitive to motion than a reference rigid electrode. We therefore anticipate it can represent an important step towards improving the repeatability of cECG methods while requiring less post-processing. This would help making cECG a viable method for remote cardiac health monitoring.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/18/5156flexible hybrid electronicselectrode designcapacitive electrocardiographyprinted electronicswearables |
| spellingShingle | Mathieu Lessard-Tremblay Joshua Weeks Laura Morelli Glenn Cowan Ghyslain Gagnon Ricardo J. Zednik Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes Sensors flexible hybrid electronics electrode design capacitive electrocardiography printed electronics wearables |
| title | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
| title_full | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
| title_fullStr | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
| title_short | Contactless Capacitive Electrocardiography Using Hybrid Flexible Printed Electrodes |
| title_sort | contactless capacitive electrocardiography using hybrid flexible printed electrodes |
| topic | flexible hybrid electronics electrode design capacitive electrocardiography printed electronics wearables |
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