Intelligent Medical Garments with Graphene-Functionalized Smart-Cloth ECG Sensors

Overview

Journal Sensors (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2017 Apr 20

PMID 28420158

Citations 30

Authors

Murat Kaya Yapici

Tamador Elboshra Alkhidir

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Biopotential signals are recorded mostly by using sticky, pre-gelled electrodes, which are not ideal for wearable, point-of-care monitoring where the usability of the personalized medical device depends critically on the level of comfort and wearability of the electrodes. We report a fully-wearable medical garment for mobile monitoring of cardiac biopotentials from the wrists or the neck with minimum restriction to regular clothing habits. The wearable prototype is based on elastic bands with graphene functionalized, textile electrodes and battery-powered, low-cost electronics for signal acquisition and wireless transmission. Comparison of the electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings obtained from the wearable prototype against conventional wet electrodes indicate excellent conformity and spectral coherence among the two signals.

Citing Articles

The Need for Smart Materials in an Expanding Smart World: MXene-Based Wearable Electronics and Their Advantageous Applications.

Amani A, Tayebi L, Abbasi M, Vaez A, Kamyab H, Chelliapan S ACS Omega. 2024; 9(3):3123-3142.

PMID: 38284011 PMC: 10809375. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c06590.

Textile-based Wearable to Monitor Heart Activity in Paediatric Population: A Pilot Study.

Montazeri Ghahjaverstan N, Balmer-Minnes D, Taghibeyglou B, Moineau B, Chaves G, Alizadeh-Meghrazi M CJC Pediatr Congenit Heart Dis. 2023; 2(4):187-195.

PMID: 37969855 PMC: 10642137. DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2023.05.007.

Wearable Vital Signs Monitoring for Patients With Asthma: A Review.

Taylor L, Ding X, Clifton D, Lu H IEEE Sens J. 2023; 23(3):1734-1751.

PMID: 37655115 PMC: 7615004. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3224411.

Carbon-Based Textile Sensors for Physiological-Signal Monitoring.

Shao W, Cui T, Li D, Jian J, Li Z, Ji S Materials (Basel). 2023; 16(11).

PMID: 37297066 PMC: 10253857. DOI: 10.3390/ma16113932.

Graphene-based cardiac sensors and actuators.

Savchenko A, Kireev D, Yin R, Efimov I, Molokanova E Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2023; 11:1168667.

PMID: 37256116 PMC: 10225741. DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1168667.

References

Weder M, Hegemann D, Amberg M, Hess M, Boesel L, Abacherli R . Embroidered electrode with silver/titanium coating for long-term ECG monitoring. Sensors (Basel). 2015; 15(1):1750-9. PMC: 4327101. DOI: 10.3390/s150101750. View

Merritt C, Nagle H, Grant E . Fabric-based active electrode design and fabrication for health monitoring clothing. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2009; 13(2):274-80. DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2012408. View

Ueno A, Akabane Y, Kato T, Hoshino H, Kataoka S, Ishiyama Y . Capacitive sensing of electrocardiographic potential through cloth from the dorsal surface of the body in a supine position: a preliminary study. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2007; 54(4):759-66. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.889201. View

Fung E, Jarvelin M, Doshi R, Shinbane J, Carlson S, Grazette L . Electrocardiographic patch devices and contemporary wireless cardiac monitoring. Front Physiol. 2015; 6:149. PMC: 4444741. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00149. View

Gargiulo G, Bifulco P, Cesarelli M, Ruffo M, Romano M, Calvo R . An ultra-high input impedance ECG amplifier for long-term monitoring of athletes. Med Devices (Auckl). 2012; 3:1-9. PMC: 3417855. DOI: 10.2147/mder.s9321. View

Jain P, Tiwari A . Heart monitoring systems--a review. Comput Biol Med. 2014; 54:1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.08.014. View

Alkhidir T, Sluzek A, Yapici M . Simple method for adaptive filtering of motion artifacts in E-textile wearable ECG sensors. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016; 2015:3807-10. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319223. View

Rattfalt L, Linden M, Hult P, Berglin L, Ask P . Electrical characteristics of conductive yarns and textile electrodes for medical applications. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2007; 45(12):1251-7. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0266-y. View

Chi Y, Cauwenberghs G . Micropower non-contact EEG electrode with active common-mode noise suppression and input capacitance cancellation. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009; 2009:4218-21. DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333527. View

10.

Oh T, Yoon S, Kim T, Wi H, Kim K, Woo E . Nanofiber web textile dry electrodes for long-term biopotential recording. IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2013; 7(2):204-11. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2201154. View

11.

Stoppa M, Chiolerio A . Wearable electronics and smart textiles: a critical review. Sensors (Basel). 2014; 14(7):11957-92. PMC: 4168435. DOI: 10.3390/s140711957. View

12.

Lee S, Sim K, Kim K, Lim Y, Park K . Thin and flexible active electrodes with shield for capacitive electrocardiogram measurement. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2010; 48(5):447-57. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0597-y. View

13.

Celik N, Manivannan N, Strudwick A, Balachandran W . Graphene-Enabled Electrodes for Electrocardiogram Monitoring. Nanomaterials (Basel). 2017; 6(9). PMC: 5224636. DOI: 10.3390/nano6090156. View

14.

Tsukada S, Nakashima H, Torimitsu K . Conductive polymer combined silk fiber bundle for bioelectrical signal recording. PLoS One. 2012; 7(4):e33689. PMC: 3320891. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033689. View

15.

Spinelli E, Martinez N, Mayosky M . A single supply biopotential amplifier. Med Eng Phys. 2001; 23(3):235-8. DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4533(01)00040-6. View

16.

Comert A, Honkala M, Hyttinen J . Effect of pressure and padding on motion artifact of textile electrodes. Biomed Eng Online. 2013; 12:26. PMC: 3637835. DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-12-26. View

17.

Marozas V, Petrenas A, Daukantas S, Lukosevicius A . A comparison of conductive textile-based and silver/silver chloride gel electrodes in exercise electrocardiogram recordings. J Electrocardiol. 2011; 44(2):189-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2010.12.004. View