Design and evaluation of a low-cost smartphone pulse oximeter

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 16882-16893

  Petersen, Christian L ^a   Chen, Tso P ^a   Ansermino, J Mark ^a   Dumont, Guy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

mHealth; Pneumonia diagnostics; Pulse oximetry; Telemonitoring

Indexed keywords

SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTEGRATED SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; MHEALTH; MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES; PULSE OXIMETRY; TELE-MONITORING; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

OXIMETERS;

EID: 84889822459     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s131216882     Document Type: Article

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