Title :
Design of a artifact-free wearable plethysmographic sensor
Author :
Rhee, Sokww ; Yang, Boo-Ho ; Asada, Haruhiko H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The ring sensor is a compact, wearable device that was originally designed for continuous physiological monitoring of a human body. In this paper, the authors propose a new design of the ring sensor that can alleviate the artifacts of motion and ambient light significantly
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; biomedical transducers; optical sensors; oximetry; patient monitoring; plethysmography; ambient light; artifact-free wearable plethysmographic sensor; compact wearable device; continuous physiological monitoring; human body; medical instrumentation; motion artifact; ring sensor; Optical design; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Pulse measurements; Q measurement; Rain; Roentgenium; Seals; Signal design; Wearable sensors;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803941
