Electrodes array for contactless ECG measurement of a bathing person - a sensitivity analysis

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul:2019:6583-6586. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857358.

Abstract

An applicability of a remote (contactless) electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements in a bathtub is presented in the paper. Possibility of ECG measurements in shallowly filled tube with a water was examined. A bathing person was, both, sitting and lying during experiments performed. The problem became non-trivial when the bathing person was moving in reference to a fixed set of electrodes and located at the longer walls of the bathtub. However, the results obtained indicate that the sensitivity of a developed electrode array could enable such measurements. However, a spatial sensitivity distribution determines, both, the recorded ECG signal parameters and quality.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Baths*
  • Electrocardiography*
  • Electrodes
  • Records
  • Water

Substances

  • Water