Do radio frequencies of medical instruments common in the operating room interfere with near-infrared spectroscopy signals?

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7555, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shadgan, Babak ^a,b   Molavi, Behnam ^c   Reid, W Darlene ^a   Dumont, Guy ^c   Macnab, Andrew J ^d,e  

^a VCHRI   (Canada)

^b Division of Orthopaedic Engineering Research   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e STELLENBOSCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference; NIRS; Operation room

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL DATA; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL OUTPUT; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE LENGTH;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INFRARED DEVICES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPERATING ROOMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SURGERY;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77951735956     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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