Towards a smart bandage with functional near infrared spectroscopy capability

Author

Dieffenderfer, James ; Bair, Mychael Chance ; Bozkurt, Alican

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

15

Abstract

This paper presents our efforts towards a smart bandage with incorporated miniaturized wireless functional near infrared spectroscopy system as a sensor node for wearable body area networks. The built prototype was used to successfully transmit deoxygenation of forearm muscle tissue during pressure cuff induced ischemia through an established Bluetooth link. The system can run over 4 hours continuously sampling at 150 Hz with provided 90mAh lithium polymer batteries and transmit data to distances more than 75 meters.

Keywords

Bluetooth; body area networks; body sensor networks; infrared spectra; muscle; radio links; secondary cells; Bluetooth link; forearm muscle tissue deoxygenation; frequency 150 Hz; functional near infrared spectroscopy; ischemia; lithium polymer batteries; sensor node; smart bandage; wearable body area networks; Absorption; Biomedical monitoring; Biomedical optical imaging; Bluetooth; Light emitting diodes; Optical imaging; Spectroscopy; Bluetooth; Near infrared spectroscopy; body area networks; physiological sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2930-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioWireleSS.2013.6613659

Filename

6613659