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An Optical Fibre-Based Sensor for Respiratory Monitoring

In this paper, a textile-based respiratory sensing system is presented. Highly flexible polymeric optical fibres (POFs) that react to applied pressure were integrated into a carrier fabric to form a wearable sensing system. After the evaluation of different optical fibres, different setups were comp...

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Autores principales: Krehel, Marek, Schmid, Michel, Rossi, René M., Boesel, Luciano F., Bona, Gian-Luca, Scherer, Lukas J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25051033
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140713088
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author Krehel, Marek
Schmid, Michel
Rossi, René M.
Boesel, Luciano F.
Bona, Gian-Luca
Scherer, Lukas J.
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description In this paper, a textile-based respiratory sensing system is presented. Highly flexible polymeric optical fibres (POFs) that react to applied pressure were integrated into a carrier fabric to form a wearable sensing system. After the evaluation of different optical fibres, different setups were compared. To demonstrate the feasibility of such a wearable sensor, the setup featuring the best performance was placed on the human torso, and thus it was possible to measure the respiratory rate. Furthermore, we show that such a wearable system enables to keep track of the way of breathing (diaphragmatic, upper costal and mixed) when the sensor is placed at different positions of the torso. A comparison of the results with the output of some commercial respiratory measurements devices confirmed the utility of such a monitoring device.
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spelling pubmed-41684682014-09-19 An Optical Fibre-Based Sensor for Respiratory Monitoring Krehel, Marek Schmid, Michel Rossi, René M. Boesel, Luciano F. Bona, Gian-Luca Scherer, Lukas J. Sensors (Basel) Article In this paper, a textile-based respiratory sensing system is presented. Highly flexible polymeric optical fibres (POFs) that react to applied pressure were integrated into a carrier fabric to form a wearable sensing system. After the evaluation of different optical fibres, different setups were compared. To demonstrate the feasibility of such a wearable sensor, the setup featuring the best performance was placed on the human torso, and thus it was possible to measure the respiratory rate. Furthermore, we show that such a wearable system enables to keep track of the way of breathing (diaphragmatic, upper costal and mixed) when the sensor is placed at different positions of the torso. A comparison of the results with the output of some commercial respiratory measurements devices confirmed the utility of such a monitoring device. MDPI 2014-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4168468/ /pubmed/25051033 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140713088 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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