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Concept of local resolution in the design of lead-off electrode systems

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A new leading-off electrode system, a concentric bipolar electrode, with higher local resolution than other bipolar electrode systems has been developed. To achieve local resolution improvement, criteria for electrode design were demanded. A theoretical study, near-pass filtering, on the decline of the signal amplitude for increasing observation distances in relation to the size of leading-off surfaces of various unipolar and bipolar electrode systems was performed, and recommendations made for real systems.

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  1. Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Free University, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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van Steenwijk, R. Concept of local resolution in the design of lead-off electrode systems. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 24, 616–624 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446265

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