Washable and Reliable Textile Electrodes Embedded into Underwear Fabric for Electrocardiography (ECG) Monitoring

Amale Ankhili1,2,3, Xuyuan Tao4,5, Cédric Cochrane6,7

  • 1École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles/Génie et Matériaux Textiles Laboratory (ENSAIT/GEMTEX), 2 Allée Louis et Victor Champier, F-59100 Roubaix, France. amale.ankhili@ensait.fr.

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