Biopotential Readout Circuits for Portable Acquisition Systems [Hardcover]

Biopotential Readout Circuits for Portable Acquisition Systems describes one of the main building blocks of such miniaturized biomedical signal acquisition systems. The focus of this book is on the implementation of low-power and high-performance integrated circuit building blocks that can be used to extract biopotential signals from conventional biopotential electrodes. New instrumentation amplifier architectures are introduced and their design is described in detail. These amplifiers are used to implement complete acquisition demonstrator systems that are a stepping stone towards practical miniaturized and low-power systems.

In biomedical signal monitoring, traditional bulky instruments are being replaced by portable acquisition systems with wireless data transmission.

This book explores in detail the requirements for such ambulatory low-power biopotential monitoring.

Biopotential Readout Circuits for Portable Acquisition Systems describes one of the main building blocks of such miniaturized biomedical signal acquisition systems. The focus of this book is on the implementation of low-power and high-performance integrated circuit building blocks that can be used to extract biopotential signals from conventional biopotential electrodes. New instrumentation amplifier architectures are introduced and their design is described in detail. These amplifiers are used to implement complete acquisition demonstrator systems that are a stepping stone towards practical miniaturized and low-power systems.

Acknowledgments. Symbols and Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Ambulatory Health Care Systems. 1.2 Body Area Networks. 1.3 Scope of the Book. 2 Introduction to Biopotential Acquisition. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Introduction to Biopotential Signals. 2.3 Introduction to Biopotential Electrodes. 2.4 Introduction to Biopotential Amplifiers. 2.5 IntrodlÃ"