A preliminary study on optical measurements of glucose concentration using a surface plasmon resonance system

Author

Pun, S.H. ; Lam, W.W. ; Ho, H.P. ; Zhang, Y.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Optical glucose measurement is an attractive research topic for years. One of the goals is to develop a portable device for continuous and non-invasive monitoring of blood glucose for diabetics. In this work, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system, which has a high detection sensitivity of 7.61×10^-7 refractive index unit (RIU), is utilized for measuring the glucose concentration in aqueous solution. The experimental results show that this approach, which measures the optical behavior of glucose solution, may possibly reveal a new pathway for the non-invasive measurement of blood glucose.

Keywords

blood; diseases; organic compounds; patient monitoring; refractive index measurement; surface plasmon resonance; aqueous solution; blood glucose; diabetics; glucose concentration; medical instrumentation; medical monitoring system; noninvasive measurement; optical measurements; surface plasmon resonance system; Blood; Diabetes; Monitoring; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Plasmons; Refractive index; Resonance; Sugar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering, 2002. Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7557-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCTE.2002.1175008

Filename

1175008