Wheelchair Pressure Ulcer Prevention Using FBG Based Sensing Devices

Tavares, Cátia; Domingues, M. Fátima; Paixão, Tiago; Alberto, Nélia; Silva, Hugo; Antunes, Paulo

doi:10.3390/s20010212

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“…have been developed in the form of amputee sockets, wheelchairs, fixed platforms, plantar insoles, and orthodontic apparatus. The monitor of pressure at the amputee socketsstump and skin-wheelchairs interfaces were investigated in studies concerned with the FP7 IASiS projects [78]- [80] whose aim was bringing optical fiber technology in rehabilitation applications, and more recently in [81]- [83]. In all these studies, the sensing element was encapsulated into flexible matrices.…”

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Fiber Bragg Gratings for Medical Applications and Future Challenges: A Review

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In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility, immunity to electromagnetic interferences, high sensitivity and multiplexing capability. FBGs have been employed in the development of surgical tools, assistive devices, wearables, and biosensors, showing great potentialities for medical uses. This paper reviews the FBG-based measuring systems, their principle of work, and their applications in medicine and healthcare. Particular attention is given to sensing solutions for biomechanics, minimally invasive surgery, physiological monitoring, and medical biosensing. Strengths, weaknesses, open challenges, and future trends are also discussed to highlight how FBGs can meet the demands of nextgeneration medical devices and healthcare system. INDEX TERMS biomechanics, biosensing, fiber Bragg grating sensors, minimally invasive surgery, physiological monitoring.

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Fiber Bragg Gratings for Medical Applications and Future Challenges: A Review

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“…Spending the time in job for many hours with bad posture will lead to back musculoskeletal disorders. Thus, FBG sensing that was developed has shown promising results for future fabrication ( 111 , 112 ).…”

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A Comprehensive Review on the Optical Micro-Electromechanical Sensors for the Biomedical Application

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Abdel‐Khalek

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This study presented an overview of current developments in optical micro-electromechanical systems in biomedical applications. Optical micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) is a particular class of MEMS technology. It combines micro-optics, mechanical elements, and electronics, called the micro-opto electromechanical system (MOEMS). Optical MEMS comprises sensing and influencing optical signals on micron-level by incorporating mechanical, electrical, and optical systems. Optical MEMS devices are widely used in inertial navigation, accelerometers, gyroscope application, and many industrial and biomedical applications. Due to its miniaturised size, insensitivity to electromagnetic interference, affordability, and lightweight characteristic, it can be easily integrated into the human body with a suitable design. This study presented a comprehensive review of 140 research articles published on photonic MEMS in biomedical applications that used the qualitative method to find the recent advancement, challenges, and issues. The paper also identified the critical success factors applied to design the optimum photonic MEMS devices in biomedical applications. With the systematic literature review approach, the results showed that the key design factors could significantly impact design, application, and future scope of work. The literature of this paper suggested that due to the flexibility, accuracy, design factors efficiency of the Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors, the demand has been increasing for various photonic devices. Except for FBG sensing devices, other sensing systems such as optical ring resonator, Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), and photonic crystals are used, which still show experimental stages in the application of biosensing. Due to the requirement of sophisticated fabrication facilities and integrated systems, it is a tough choice to consider the other photonic system. Miniaturisation of complete FBG device for biomedical applications is the future scope of work. Even though there is a lot of experimental work considered with an FBG sensing system, commercialisation of the final FBG device for a specific application has not been seen noticeable progress in the past.

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“…The plantar region is subject to repetitive normal and shearing loads generated by gait or standing positions [13] [14]. It can also be subject to a constant load generated by the weight of the leg when a patient is sitting on a wheelchair [15]. On the other hand, the posterior region of the heel is subject to constant normal and shearing loads generated by the contacts and friction with the mattress in patients that are bedridden [6].…”

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