Biomedical Sensors for Cardiology

Dear Colleagues,

Technologies in cardiovascular healthcare are rapid developing and becoming more sophisticated, increasing the reliability and feasibility of long-term, continuous, and non-invasive monitoring of the heart’s vital signs using a variety of sensor technologies and complex wireless network systems approaches. These include non-standard sensor placements in stable and convenient anatomical locotions on the body’s surface for long-term ECG rhythm monitoring and hemodynamics surrogate measurements from the arm brachial blood vessels by means of dynamic bioimpedance techniques. In addition, therapeutic devices for the treatment of heart diseases could be temporary, leading to a therapies for permanent diseases or destination devices for a particular heart disease. The latter devices are technologically more challenging, as they usually require an implantable device in long-term operation. Nevertheless, they have an increasing demand due to the global aging population. Thus, biomedical sensors development offers a great opportunity to capture dynamic body-surface vital signs of the heart in real-time and in a nonintrusive and continuous mode. Moreover, new biocompatible materials in the development of tissue engineering enable advanced cardiovascular therapeutics destination devices.

   Overall Scope:

• Wearable biocompatible dry ECG electrodes for long-term monitoring.
• Wearable armbands for long-term ECG and impedance cardiography (ICG) monitoring methods.
• Biocompatible materials in tissue engineering and sensors, enabling advanced cardiovascular therapeutics destination devices.

Prof. Dr. Omar Escalona
Guest Editor

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• long-term vital signs monitoring
• wearable biocompatible dry ECG electrodes
• body-surface surrogate cardiac contractility monitoring techniques
• noninvasive sensors
• cardiovascular therapeutic destination implanted devices
• tissue engineering solutions in cardiology