Table 1.
Comparison of main features of electrode arrays found in literature
| Electrode array | Material | Number of pads | Array’s structure | Pad’s shape | Pad’s size | Gap's size | Electrode’s dimensions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smart Electrode | textile silver coated fibres | 16-pads | 4 × 4 | round | 10 mm × 10 mm | 2 mm | 5 cm × 5 cm |
| 64-pads | 8 × 8 | 10 cm × 10 cm | |||||
| Actitrode | plastic flexible substrate | 24-pads | 6 × 4 | round | 1 cm | 0.9 cm | 8 cm × 5 cm |
| 12-pads | 6 × 2 | 1.2 cm | |||||
| INTFES (by Tecnalia) | plastic flexible substrate | 16-pads | 4 × 4 | oval, rectangular | 2 mm | ||
| Smartex (by Smartex) | textile | 25-pads | 5 × 5 | round | 1 cm | 5 mm | 9 cm × 9 cm |
| Chen | plastic flexible substrate | 30-pads | 6 rows of 5 pads | round | 1 cm | 3 mm | 8.5 cm × 7.2 cm |
| HYPER (by Tecnalia) | plastic flexible substrate | 16-pads | 4 × 4 | rectangular | 2.6 cm × 0.6 cm | 2 mm | |
| FEA | screen-printed flexible and breathable fabric | 24-pads | 4 × 6 | oval | 0.75 cm × 1.25 cm | 0.75 cm | 11.5 cm × 5.5 cm |
| MUNDUS (by Tecnalia) | textile + plastic flexible substrate | 78-pads | 6 separated arrays | rectangular | 2 mm |