The standard silver / silver-chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrode is moisture-sensitive and susceptible to motion artifacts that reduce electrocardiogram (ECG) signal quality. FLEXcon USA© has developed a moisture-independent and less-expensive electrode design that can improve short- and long-term clinical ECG measurement. Ten subjects were recruited for each of two clinical studies designed to quantify biocompatibility for 7 days and ECG quality for 4 days. The Gen. 2-A and Ag/AgCl adhesives lost 7.14% and 50% adhesion, respectively. The correlation coefficients between heart rates measured by the FLEXcon and Ag/AgCl electrodes were both 0.997. The FLEXcon adhesive and the industry standard Ag/AgCl produced statistically similar ECG signals in short- and long-term clinical applications.

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Creator

• Kapinova, Armand
• Shollo, Leonard
• Shorrock, Peter N

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043014-191038

Advisor

• Bitar, Stephen John
• Chon, Ki H.

Year

• 2014

Sponsor

• Flexcon

Date created

• 2014-04-30

Location

• Spencer

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright