Plastic optical fiber sensor for noninvasive arterial pulse waveform monitoring

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-18

  Leitão, Cátia Sofia Jorge ^a   Da Costa Antunes, Paulo Fernando ^a   Bastos, José Adelino Mesquita ^a   De Lemos Pinto, João ^a   De Brito André, Paulo Sérgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biomedical transducer; Cardiology; Hypertension.; Index Terms Optical fiber sensors; Plastic optical fiber

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; PLASTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTERIAL PULSE WAVEFORMS; BIOMEDICAL TRANSDUCERS; CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION; DISPLACEMENT RESOLUTION; HYPERTENSION; IMPLEMENTATION COST; NON-INVASIVE MONITORING; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR;

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 84910088928     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2336594     Document Type: Article

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