All plastic optical fiber-based respiration monitoring sensor

Wern Kam, Waleed S. Mohammed, Gabriel Leen, Kieran O'Sullivan, Mary O'Keeffe, Sinead O'Keeffe, Elfed Lewis

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Abstract

In this study we have fabricated an all-plastic fiber based sensor that can accurately measure breathing rate. The sensor is attached using simple medical tape on the chest and can measure the movement during breathing based on intensity modulation between the input and output optical fibers. The respiratory signal of the subject during normal breathing and chest (or deep) breathing whilst in a sitting and lying posture is compared with a commercial electronic Neu-log respiratory monitoring system. Results show that the sensor works well for people sitting and lying on a bed which will be useful for bed bound patient monitoring. It is anticipated that the proposed all-plastic sensor would also open possibilities for respiratory monitoring inside special environment such as inside an MRI system or during X-ray body scans.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-3
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781509010127
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Dec 2017
Event16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 30 Oct 20171 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Sensors
Volume2017-December
ISSN (Print)1930-0395
ISSN (Electronic)2168-9229

Conference

Conference16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period30/10/171/11/17

Keywords

  • All-plastic fiber sensor
  • Respiration sensor

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