A development of pillow for detection and restraining of snoring

Proceedings - 2010 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 1381-1385

  Wei, Ran ^a   Kim, Hee Sun ^b   Li, Xing ^a   Im, Jae Joong ^a   Kim, Hyun Jeong ^c  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b UnC Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Air bladder; Contact microphone; Pillow, snoring; Polysomnograph; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTACT MICROPHONE; COUPLED OSCILLATIONS; GENERAL POPULATION; PILLOW, SNORING; POLYSOMNOGRAPH; RESPIRATORY FLOW; SLEEP APNEA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MICROPHONES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 78650657841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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