Design and Fabrication of Printed Human Skin Model Equivalent Circuit: A Tool for Testing Biomedical Electrodes without Human Trials

Nikola Peřinka, Matija Štrbac, Milos Kostić, Jovana Malešević, Nélson Castro*, Vítor Correia, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez

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Resumen

Within the efforts of developing a new generation of biomedical electrodes with embedded switching logics, developing safe and simple procedures for testing these novel systems is tackled. The development and demonstration of an all-printed flexible testbed for automated validation and testing of multi pad systems is presented. The system is based on a Human model equivalent circuit (HMEC), which, when connected to the electrical stimulation system, mirrors the electrical behavior of biomedical electrodes and their specific interface material as if they are placed on a human subject. A simulation model of the electrical stimulation system components was developed based on the experimental data, in order to optimize printed electronic components’ characteristics and design. The testbed is composed of five layers of different conductive and dielectric materials screen-printed on a flexible poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) substrate. The system was prototyped with the characteristic values of the HMEC matching the average experimental data acquired from human subjects. Thus, it is demonstrated that an all printed flexible HMEC is a feasible approach to enabling the functional testing of transcutaneous electrical stimulation devices required for their fabrication, evaluation and optimization, reducing the need for tests on human subjects in the development phase of new systems.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo2100684
Páginas (desde-hasta)2100684
Número de páginas1
PublicaciónAdvanced Engineering Materials
Volumen24
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - feb 2022

Palabras clave

  • Electrode
  • Equivalent circuit
  • Printing
  • Skin model
  • Testbed

Project and Funding Information

  • Funding Info
  • Basque Government Industry and Education Departments PIBA‐2018‐06

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