A 'smart' bed for non-intrusive monitoring of patient physiological factors

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1614-1620

  Spillman Jr , W B ^a   Mayer, M ^a   Bennett, J ^a   Gong, J ^a   Meissner, K E ^a   Davis, B ^a   Claus, R O ^a   Muelenaer Jr , A A ^a   Xu, X ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Mode modulation sensing; Motion; Non intrusive physiological factor monitoring; Perturbation; Spatially integrating fibre optic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FIBER OPTICS; MONITORING; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

FIBER SENSING; HEART RATE; PATIENT RESPIRATION;

PATIENT MONITORING;

FIBER OPTICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 4043158551     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/8/032     Document Type: Article

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