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  • Title: Preamplifiers for non-contact capacitive biopotential measurements.
    Author: Peng G, Ignjatovic Z, Bocko MF.
    Journal: Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc; 2013; 2013():1482-5. PubMed ID: 24109979.
    Abstract:
    Non-contact biopotential sensing is an attractive measurement strategy for a number of health monitoring applications, primarily the ECG and the EEG. In all such applications a key technical challenge is the design of a low-noise trans-impedance preamplifier for the typically low-capacitance, high source impedance sensing electrodes. In this paper, we compare voltage and charge amplifier designs in terms of their common mode rejection ratio, noise performance, and frequency response. Both amplifier types employ the same operational-transconductance amplifier (OTA), which was fabricated in a 0.35 um CMOS process. The results show that a charge amplifier configuration has advantages for small electrode-to-subject coupling capacitance values (less than 10 pF--typical of noncontact electrodes) and that the voltage amplifier configuration has advantages for electrode capacitances above 10 pF.
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