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Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance
Volume 3 (2012): Issue 1 (January 2012)
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Low power current sources for bioimpedance measurements: a comparison between Howland and OTA-based CMOS circuits
Pedro Bertemes-Filho
Pedro Bertemes-Filho
,
Volney C. Vincence
Volney C. Vincence
,
Marcio M. Santos
Marcio M. Santos
and
Ilson X. Zanatta
Ilson X. Zanatta
| Oct 23, 2012
Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance
Volume 3 (2012): Issue 1 (January 2012)
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Published Online:
Oct 23, 2012
Page range:
66 - 73
Received:
Jun 29, 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5617/jeb.380
Keywords
Howland circuit
,
OTA
,
current conveyor
,
bioimpedance
© 2012 Pedro Bertemes-Filho, Volney C. Vincence, Marcio M. Santos, Ilson X. Zanatta, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Fig.1
Schematic diagram of the simulated mirrored modified Howland current source, where R= 47 kΩ, C= 2 μF and Vin is the input signal.
Fig.2
Schematic diagram of the simulated CMOS class-A operational transconductance amplifier (modified from (42)).
Fig.3
Schematic diagram of the simulated CMOS class-AB operational transconductance amplifier (modified from (40)).
Fig.4
Schematic diagram of the Current Conveyor current source.
Fig.5
Linearity error response of the current source over the input voltage range -0.6 to +0.6 V, using a resistive load of 1 kΩ.
Fig.6
Harmonic distortion as a function of the input voltage.
Fig.7
Output current magnitude over the frequency range 10 Hz to 1 GHz.
Fig.8
Output impedance over the frequency range 10 Hz to 100 MHz.