Radio telemetry of vaginal temperature

Author

McCreesh, Zita ; Evans, Noel

Author_Institution

Northern Ireland Bioeng. Centre, Ulster Univ., Jordanstown, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

904

Abstract

A two-part, vaginal, telemetric thermometer is discussed, using low-power UHF radio as the transmission medium. Worn overnight, the telemetry transmitter sends pulse modulated data continuously to a microcontroller in an adjacent receiver where the subject´s temperature is extracted to 0.1°C resolution, and stored for later processing. The propagation characteristics of the radio link and initial measurements pertaining to ovulation indication are presented

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; biothermics; patient monitoring; radio links; radiotelemetry; thermometers; adjacent receiver; initial measurements; low-power UHF radio; microcontroller; overnight; ovulation indication; propagation characteristics; pulse modulated data; radio link; radio telemetry; resolution; telemetry transmitter; transmission medium; two-part vaginal telemetric thermometer; vaginal temperature; Microcontrollers; Probes; Pulse circuits; Pulse modulation; Radio link; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Telemetry; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2050-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1994.415205

Filename

415205