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Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies
Optical waveguides and integrated optical devices are promising solutions for many applications, such as medical diagnosis, health monitoring and light therapies. Despite the many existing reviews focusing on the materials that these devices are made from, a systematic review that relates these devi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7411870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32709072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143981 |
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description | Optical waveguides and integrated optical devices are promising solutions for many applications, such as medical diagnosis, health monitoring and light therapies. Despite the many existing reviews focusing on the materials that these devices are made from, a systematic review that relates these devices to the various materials, fabrication processes, sensing methods and medical applications is still seldom seen. This work is intended to link these multidisciplinary fields, and to provide a comprehensive review of the recent advances of these devices. Firstly, the optical and mechanical properties of optical waveguides based on glass, polymers and heterogeneous materials and fabricated via various processes are thoroughly discussed, together with their applications for medical purposes. Then, the fabrication processes and medical implementations of integrated passive and active optical devices with sensing modules are introduced, which can be used in many medical fields such as drug delivery and cardiovascular healthcare. Thirdly, wearable optical sensing devices based on light sensing methods such as colorimetry, fluorescence and luminescence are discussed. Additionally, the wearable optical devices for light therapies are introduced. The review concludes with a comprehensive summary of these optical devices, in terms of their forms, materials, light sources and applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-74118702020-08-25 Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies Wang, Jiayu Dong, Jianfei Sensors (Basel) Article Optical waveguides and integrated optical devices are promising solutions for many applications, such as medical diagnosis, health monitoring and light therapies. Despite the many existing reviews focusing on the materials that these devices are made from, a systematic review that relates these devices to the various materials, fabrication processes, sensing methods and medical applications is still seldom seen. This work is intended to link these multidisciplinary fields, and to provide a comprehensive review of the recent advances of these devices. Firstly, the optical and mechanical properties of optical waveguides based on glass, polymers and heterogeneous materials and fabricated via various processes are thoroughly discussed, together with their applications for medical purposes. Then, the fabrication processes and medical implementations of integrated passive and active optical devices with sensing modules are introduced, which can be used in many medical fields such as drug delivery and cardiovascular healthcare. Thirdly, wearable optical sensing devices based on light sensing methods such as colorimetry, fluorescence and luminescence are discussed. Additionally, the wearable optical devices for light therapies are introduced. The review concludes with a comprehensive summary of these optical devices, in terms of their forms, materials, light sources and applications. MDPI 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7411870/ /pubmed/32709072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143981 Text en © 2020 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 (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Jiayu Dong, Jianfei Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies |
title | Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies |
title_full | Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies |
title_fullStr | Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies |
title_full_unstemmed | Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies |
title_short | Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optical Devices for Medical Diagnosis, Health Monitoring and Light Therapies |
title_sort | optical waveguides and integrated optical devices for medical diagnosis, health monitoring and light therapies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7411870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32709072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143981 |
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