Respiratory monitoring using fibre long period grating sensors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5864, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-6

  Allsop, T ^a   Revees, R ^a   Webb, D J ^a   Bennion, I ^a   Earthrowl, T ^a   Jones, B ^a   Miller, M ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curvature Sensing; Long Period Gratings; Respiratory Monitoring

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPTICAL DEVICES; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SPECTROMETERS;

CURVATURE SENSING; GRATING SENSORS; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; RESPIRATORY MONITORING;

SENSORS;

EID: 28844497766     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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