Pulmonary plethysmography based on optical shape sensing

The present invention relates to a pulmonary plethysmographic system (10), the system with a garment (11) wearable on the body of a mammal, e.g. a human, the garment comprising a shape sensing fiber (12) with a plurality of optical fibers (30) to facilitate optical measurements of strain along the l...

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Main Authors SABCZYNSKI JORG, RAMACHANDRAN BHARAT
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.06.2015
Subjects
DIAGNOSIS
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
MEASURING
MEASURING ANGLES
MEASURING AREAS
MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEARDIMENSIONS
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
PHYSICS
SURGERY
TESTING
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Summary:The present invention relates to a pulmonary plethysmographic system (10), the system with a garment (11) wearable on the body of a mammal, e.g. a human, the garment comprising a shape sensing fiber (12) with a plurality of optical fibers (30) to facilitate optical measurements of strain along the length of the shape sensing fiber. An optical interrogation unit (13) is optically connected with the optical fibers in the shape sensing fiber for measuring the strain along the plurality of optical fibers. A processing unit (14) is processing the strain data into three-dimensional position data over time, the processing unit further being arranged for processing the position data over time into volume data indicative of pulmonary data about the mammal wearing the garment. The invention is advantageous for obtaining an improved system for pulmonary measurement providing a more realistic measurement of the pulmonary function of the mammal.
Bibliography:Application Number: CN201380054148