It turns out the electrical potential or electricity that you can measure on the surface of the body reflects things that are happening deeper inside like the beating of your heart.

人们已经证明在体表测量得到的电势能,或者电信号,能够表征,像心跳这样,身体较深处的变化

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Rather than by forming an image or a picture you put electrodes on the surface of the body and measure the electrical potential as a function of position on the body.

它并不对人进行直接的造影,而是将电极放到身体表面,通过测量该位置电势能,表征该部位的生理状态

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As time goes on, we've developed ever more complex machines to study people and we've talked about some of these already: EKG machines, so an example of an electrical device that can be used to monitor a very elaborate function deep inside your body, the beating of your heart and the rhythm of your heart.

如今,我们已经有功能更加复杂的设备,来研究人类,比如之前说到的心电图,我们使用电子装置,对身体内部机能进行精确地监控,具体到心电图就是心跳和心率

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