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

IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2009 Nov;13(6):897-902. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2033053. Epub 2009 Sep 29.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Clothing
  • Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / methods*
  • Electrodes
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted