A wearable ECG acquisition system with compact planar-fashionable circuit board-based shirt

Authors:
Jerald Yoo;Long Yan;Seulki Lee;Hyejung Kim;Hoi-Jun Yoo
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea;Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea;Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea;Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center, Leuven, Belgium and Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea;Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
Year:
2009

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Abstract

A wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition system implemented with planar-fashionable circuit board (P-FCB)-based shirt is presented. The proposed system removes cumbersome wires from conventional Holter monitor system for convenience. Dry electrodes screen-printed directly on fabric enables long-term monitoring without skin irritation. The ECG monitoring shirt exploits a monitoring chip with a group of electrodes around the body, and both the electrodes and the interconnection are implemented using P-FCB to enhance wearability and to lower production cost. The characteristics of P-FCB electrode are shown, and the prototype hardware is implemented to successfully verify the proposed concept.