A Tissue Impedance Measurement Chip for Myocardial Ischemia Detection

In this paper, the design of a specific integrated circuit for the measurement of tissue impedances is presented. The circuit will be part of a multi-micro-sensor system intended to be used in cardiac surgery for sensing biomedical parameters in living bodies. Myocardium tissue impedance is one of t...

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Autores: Yúfera García, Alberto, Rueda Rueda, Adoración, Muñoz, José María, Doldán, Ricardo, Leger Leger, Gildas, Rodríguez Villegas, Esther
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/76088
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/76088
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2005.857542
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Analog integrated circuits
Impedance measurement circuits
Myocardial ischemia detection
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Sumario:In this paper, the design of a specific integrated circuit for the measurement of tissue impedances is presented. The circuit will be part of a multi-micro-sensor system intended to be used in cardiac surgery for sensing biomedical parameters in living bodies. Myocardium tissue impedance is one of these parameters which allows ischemia detection. The designed chip will be used in a four-electrode based setup where the effect of electrode interfaces are cancelled by design. The chip includes a circuit to generate the stimulus signals (sinusoidal current) and the circuitry to measure the magnitude and phase of the tissue impedance. Several integrated circuits have been designed, fabricated and tested, in a 0.8- m CMOS process, working at 3 V of power supply. Some of them including building blocks, and other with the whole measurement system. Experimental tests have shown the circuit feasibility giving expected results for both in-vitro and in-vivo test conditions.