Wearable sensors in intelligent clothing for measuring human body temperature based on optical fiber Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 11740-11752

  Li, Hongqiang ^a   Yang, Haijing ^b   Li, Enbang ^c   Liu, Zhihui ^a   Wei, Kejia ^a  

^a TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SENSING DEVICES; HOSIERY MANUFACTURE; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; TEXTILE PROCESSING; THERMOANALYSIS;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; FBG SENSOR; FUNCTIONAL TEXTILES; HEAT TRANSMISSION; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN BODY TEMPERATURE; INTELLIGENT CLOTHING; LAW OF ENERGY CONSERVATION; METHODS OF MEASUREMENT; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SMALL PIPES; STEADY-STATE THERMAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MONITORING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEIGHTED AVERAGE METHOD; WEIGHTING COEFFICIENT;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLOTHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CLOTHING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861516691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011740     Document Type: Article

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