ISSN:
1662-0356
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Natural Sciences in General
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Technology
Notes:
The potential impact of optical fibre sensors embedded into medical textiles for thecontinuous monitoring of the patient during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is presented. Inthat way, we report on several pure optical sensing technologies for pulse oximetry and respiratorymovements monitoring. The technique for pulse oximetry measurement is known as NIRS (NearInfra-Red Spectroscopy) in a reflectance mode. In parallel, we tested two different optical sensorbased fabric designs breathing activity detection – a macro bending sensor and a fibre Bragg gratingsensor consisting in respiratory frequency measurement by intensity variation detection and opticalspectral analysis
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/42/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAST.60.134.pdf