D. Mikhaylov, T. Khabibullin, I. Zhukov, A. Starikovskiy, Landish Gubaydulina, N. Romanchuk, V. Konev
{"title":"Development of Retention System of the Autonomous Endoscopic Capsule and Its Functionalities","authors":"D. Mikhaylov, T. Khabibullin, I. Zhukov, A. Starikovskiy, Landish Gubaydulina, N. Romanchuk, V. Konev","doi":"10.5220/0004719400770084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004719400770084","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research is to propose the retention system of the wireless endoscopic capsule allowing more detailed observation of stomach, small intestine as well as other parts of the digestive tract. The capsule has an outer layer or whiskers made of an electroactive polymer material that expands under influence of an applied voltage. An electroactive polymer expands up to 50% of its original size and creates a roughly ballshaped object approximately 3 cm in diameter (in case of whiskers – they change their angular orientation). The performance (changing the size) of the mock-up of the capsule with eight whiskers made of electroactive polymer was tested using a silicone model with sensitive sensors simulating the digestive tract of a person. The probability of failure-free operation and the mean time to failure for capsule and recording device integrated circuits were calculated.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134076144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arthur Gatouillat, B. Massot, Y. Badr, E. Sejdić, C. Géhin
{"title":"Building IoT-Enabled Wearable Medical Devices: An Application to a Wearable, Multiparametric, Cardiorespiratory Sensor","authors":"Arthur Gatouillat, B. Massot, Y. Badr, E. Sejdić, C. Géhin","doi":"10.5220/0006729101090118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006729101090118","url":null,"abstract":"Recent developments in personal and mobile healthcare have shown promising results in term of patients' quality of life and quality of care improvements. This can be achieved through continuous monitoring of patients' physiological functions using wearable non-invasive biomedical sensors. The remote collection and processing of such data can then be used to provide rapid medical response if a problem is detected or to offer preventive measures. However, the integration of wearable sensors into wider-scale framework is still a major challenge, as real-time data collection and remote configuration capabilities must be integrated to strongly constrained devices. Here, we show how such requirements can be integrated into a multiparameter, cardiorespiratory wearable sensor and how this sensor can be integrated into wide-scale Internet-based frameworks. We thus manufactured a biomedical-grade heart rate, instantaneous heart-rate variability and respiratory sensor. The sensor was tested in real life ambulatory condition, and we showed an Internet-based proof of concept exhibiting the integration of our sensor into wide-scale healthcare frameworks. Finally, we anticipate that wearable healthcare will greatly improve patients' quality-of-life by using IoT-based wearable devices similar to the sensor developed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121250234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. G. Ramírez-Chavarría, C. Sánchez-Pérez, D. Matatagui
{"title":"Analysis of Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements of Biological Tissue using the Distribution of Relaxation Times Method","authors":"R. G. Ramírez-Chavarría, C. Sánchez-Pérez, D. Matatagui","doi":"10.5220/0006253902240228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006253902240228","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes a method for analysing electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements of biological tissue in the range of 100 Hz to 1 MHz by means of the distribution of relaxation times (DRT) to evaluate and study the different relaxation time constant involved in electrical response. We numerically analyse different configurations of RC circuits and compare the electrical response in time domain by DRT with that of classical EIS representation in frequency domain as Bode plots. Experimental validation of the technique using RC circuits, gives an error of less than 1% for the EIS measurement system with respect to theoretical calculation. We present preliminary measurements for WISTAR rat tissue samples of spleen, lung and kidney fixed in formaldehyde solution at 3.8% founding a more detailed occurrence of relaxation mechanism that could provide useful information about the structure and composition of biological tissues in","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"429 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133137712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Saggio, G. Tancredi, Laura Sbernini, C. Gaudio, A. Bianco, J. Zeitani
{"title":"In-vitro Force Assessments of an Autoclavable Instrumented Sternal Retractor","authors":"G. Saggio, G. Tancredi, Laura Sbernini, C. Gaudio, A. Bianco, J. Zeitani","doi":"10.5220/0006111300250031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006111300250031","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that median sternotomy might lead to rib and/or sternum micro/macro-fractures and/or brachial plexus injuries, eventually resulting in chronic pain with significant impact on patient’s quality life.Postoperative chronic pain is recognized as a multifactorial complex issue, it has been assessed that excessive sternum retraction forces can be considered one of these factors. On this basis, the Authors developed a reliable and sterilizable system potentially able to real-time monitor and control the retraction forces along the hemisternums. A Finochietto sternal retractor was instrumented by means of ultra-thin force sensors interfaced with ad hoc electronic circuitry. Two different sets of sensors were adopted, one of which able to support autoclave operating conditions. In vitro tests were performed by means of a made on purpose dummy. The instrumented retractor allows monitoring of the force exerted on both the arms during the opening procedure. Force versus time patterns were real-time acquired and stored, distribution of forces was determined along with the values of mean, maximum and plateau force. Results demonstrate the reliability of the instrumented retractor in measuring forces, up to 400N. Cost-effectiveness and feasibility can be considered further additional values of the proposed instrumented retractor.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117159845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Staroveški, Zlatko Catlak, M. Klaic, T. Udiljak
{"title":"A Test Bed Model of an Advanced Handheld Bone Drilling System","authors":"T. Staroveški, Zlatko Catlak, M. Klaic, T. Udiljak","doi":"10.5220/0006228601900193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006228601900193","url":null,"abstract":"Modern medical drilling systems utilized in bone and joint surgery are characterized with relatively low level of automation, i.e., with no process monitoring and/or adaptive control characteristics, which could potentially prevent mechanical and thermal bone damages. The quality of the drilling process depends solely on the operator skills and tool characteristics. Therefore, a group of research activities have been focused to the development of an advanced next generation hand-held drilling machine. It should provide mechanical and thermal monitoring capabilities of the tool and bone, automated tool feed movement with potential implementation of high-speed drilling regimes, as well as the application of an advanced adaptive control algorithms for cutting forces and drilling temperature limitation. The system would reduce human influence in drill guidance by allowing operator to define drilling location and desired tool direction/angle, while all other activities would be performed autonomously by the machine monitoring and control system. The test bed platform of such system which will be used in the final prototype shaping is presented in this","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134590687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of an Integrated Optofluidic Platform for Droplet and Micro Particle Sensing - Microflow Analyzer for Interrogating Self Aligned Droplets and Droplet Encapsulated Micro Objects","authors":"P. Shivhare, A. Prabhakar, A. Sen","doi":"10.5220/0006174801710178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006174801710178","url":null,"abstract":"Here we report the development of a micro flow analyser that integrates digital microfluidics technology with optoelectronics for the detection of micron size droplets and particles. Digital microfluidics is employed for the encapsulation of microparticles inside droplets that self-align at the centre of a microchannel thus eliminates the need of complicated 3D focusing. Optoelectronics comprise a laser source and detectors for the measurement of forward scatter (FSC), side scatter (SSC) and fluorescence (FL) signals from the microparticles. The optoelectronics was first used with a simple 2D flow focusing channel to detect microparticles which showed uncertainty in the data due to lack of 3D focusing. The integrated device with digital microfluidics technology and optoelectronics was then used for the enumeration and detection of Rhodamine droplets of different size. Rhodamine droplets of different size were characterized based on FSC, SSC and FL. Finally, the device was used for the detection of fluorescent microbeads encapsulated inside aqueous droplets.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123816605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Takeuchi, Tomohiro Miwa, M. Sawada, Haruo Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Sugibuchi, M. Hirose, N. Ikeda
{"title":"Optical Fiber Characterized with a Low Refractive Index can Detect Blood - Blood Increased Light Loss through an Air-Cladding Optical Fiber","authors":"A. Takeuchi, Tomohiro Miwa, M. Sawada, Haruo Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Sugibuchi, M. Hirose, N. Ikeda","doi":"10.5220/0003122003070310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0003122003070310","url":null,"abstract":"Large amounts of undetected blood loss during hemodialysis are caused by venous needle dislodgement. A special air-cladding plastic optical fiber with a low refractive index, fluoropolymer, PFA fiber, JUNFLON, was developed to monitor oil and lipid leakage in industrial fields, and to monitor the dust in the air in clean rooms. To apply the air-cladding plastic optical fiber as a bleed sensor, we studied the optical effects of soaking the fiber with various liquids and porcine blood on light-loss experimental settings. Light intensity through the fiber was studied with a light emitting diode and a photodiode under various conditions of soaked fiber with reverse osmosis water, physiological saline, glucose, and porcine blood. The more the soaked length increased with all mediums, the more the light intensity decreased. Although the slopes of the decreased curves varied according to the mediums, the light scattering phenomena caused by the mediums can be applied to a bleed sensor for clinical use.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"475 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126560950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Fantacci, L. Biagi, M. Cosottini, M. Costagli, M. Marletta, A. Retico, R. Stara, M. Symms, G. Tiberi, V. Zampa, M. Tosetti
{"title":"Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 7 Tesla with Dedicated Radiofrequency Coils - Application to Cervical Cord and Knee","authors":"M. Fantacci, L. Biagi, M. Cosottini, M. Costagli, M. Marletta, A. Retico, R. Stara, M. Symms, G. Tiberi, V. Zampa, M. Tosetti","doi":"10.5220/0005774102290234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005774102290234","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging is a valuable tool in the diagnosis and monitoring of various musculoskeletal pathologies. New Ultra-High Field (UHF) 7 T MRI systems, with their enhanced Signal-toNoise Ratio, may offer increased image quality in terms of spatial resolution and/or shorter scanning time compared to lower field systems. However, these benefits can be difficult to obtain because of increased radio-frequency (RF) inhomogeneity, increased Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) and the relative lack of specialized and commercially available RF coils compared to lower field systems. This study reports the feasibility of imaging in bones and cartilages at UHF with a 7 T MR scanner available at the IMAGO7 Foundation (Pisa, Italy). Dedicated radio-frequency coils for proton imaging have been designed, developed, optimized for different anatomical regions and validated in vivo, and are now ready for clinical research studies. The performance of the RF coil prototypes in targeting different anatomical regions are also demonstrated, obtaining images of the neck (the cervical cord) and of the knee (trabecular bone and","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125290053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive Auricular Electrical Stimulation Controlled by Vital BIOSIGNALS - Transition from Fixed to Adaptive and Synchronized Electrical Stimulation Controlled by Heart Rate Variability and Blood Perfusion","authors":"E. Kaniušas, J. Szeles, T. Materna, G. Varoneckas","doi":"10.5220/0001779703040309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001779703040309","url":null,"abstract":"The auricular electrical punctual stimulation is usually applied for pain relief. The common application involves fixed stimulation parameters, which makes the simulation insensitive to prevailing pain or stress level and may lead to a disadvantageous over-stimulation. In order to address this issue, the given position paper presents an experimental background leading to a conceptual design of an adaptive and synchronized stimulation technique. Here parameters of the heart rate variability are used as stimulation biofeedback, while the stimulating signal is synchronized with cardiac or respiratory activity to boost stimulation effects.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126963544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Razumiene, V. Gureviciene, J. Barkauskas, V. Bukauskas, A. Šetkus
{"title":"Novel Combined Template for Amperometric Biosensors with Changeable Selectivity","authors":"J. Razumiene, V. Gureviciene, J. Barkauskas, V. Bukauskas, A. Šetkus","doi":"10.5220/0001827604480452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001827604480452","url":null,"abstract":"Present paper describes innovative approach in design of amperometric biosensors useful in various applications. Original template of the electrodes has been prepared on a base of carbon nanotube support layer deposited on the polycarbonate membrane. Novel template and changeable enzyme layer give rise to creation of new family of biosensors acceptable for detection of wide range of carbohydrates. The morphology and electric properties of the constituent parts of the template electrode are characterized by scanning probe microscopy. The sensitivity, selectivity and stability are described for typical types of the biosensors.","PeriodicalId":357085,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116201968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}