A Diagnosis System for the Spinal Column Nerve Damaged Patients

Author

Kim, S.H. ; Cho, J.M. ; Kim, S.I. ; Nam, T.W. ; Lim, J.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Inje Univ., Kimhae

fYear

2006

Firstpage

6733

Lastpage

6734

Abstract

Visible evidence of spinal column damage is only apparent in 14% of the patients who receive spinal damage. We use a humidity sensor array. The humidity sensor (HDP-05) is arranged and attached to pre-assigned regions along the spinal column nerve of the actual patient. Applying pressure to the urinary bladder causes the patient to sweat. It is possible to determine which spinal column autonomic nerve is damaged in a region by humidity value. But also have some problem is that sometimes the damaged region has same value as a normal region. If will find a better attachment method and a more sensitive sensor could be found the results will be better and more precise

Keywords

arrays; humidity sensors; neurophysiology; patient diagnosis; autonomic nerve; diagnosis system; humidity sensor array; spinal column nerve damaged patients; urinary bladder; Biomedical engineering; Biosensors; Bladder; Bones; Computerized monitoring; Humidity measurement; Pain; Sensor arrays; Voltage; X-rays; humidity sensor; spinal column damage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616049

Filename

1616049