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ECG measurement on a chair without conductive contact

Yong Gyu Lim1, Ko Keun Kim, Kwang Suk Park

  • 1Biomedical Engineering Department, Seoul National University, Seoul, 100-799 Korea.

IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering
|May 12, 2006
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