DocumentCode
3068571
Title
Bio-sensing textiles to support health management
Author
Luprano, Jean
Author_Institution
Centre Suisse d´´Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA, Switzerland
fYear
2008
fDate
20-25 Aug. 2008
Firstpage
1858
Lastpage
1858
Abstract
Integration of health monitoring tools into textiles brings the benefits of safety and comfort to the users. Instrumented clothes will provide remote monitoring of vital signs, diagnostics to improve early illness detection and metabolic disorder and benefits to the reduction on medical social costs to the citizen. Ambulatory healthcare, isolated people, convalescent people and patients with chronic diseases are addressed.
Keywords
Biomedical monitoring; Biomedical optical imaging; Biosensors; Health and safety; Optical saturation; Optical sensors; Remote monitoring; Temperature measurement; Textiles; Wounds; Biomedical Engineering; Biosensing Techniques; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Textiles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Vancouver, BC
ISSN
1557-170X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN
1557-170X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649546
Filename
4649546
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