• DocumentCode
    3039302
  • Title

    Intelligent sensor for a photoplethysmograph using virtual instrumentation

  • Author

    Pahlang, M. ; Zahedi, Edmond ; Ali, Mohd Alauddin Bin Mohd

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Syst. Eng., Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    20-22 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    322
  • Lastpage
    323
  • Abstract
    This paper present an intelligent sensor for a photoplethysmograph (PPG) using a virtual instrumentation. The photoplethysmograph is noninvasively obtained electro-optical signal widely used in the study and monitoring of the pulsations associated with changes in blood volume in a peripheral vascular bed. A smart sensor, which is an analogue circuit with LED driver, photodetector, amplifier, and low pass filter, is implemented to measure the PPG.
  • Keywords
    biomedical transducers; intelligent sensors; light emitting diodes; photodetectors; plethysmography; virtual instrumentation; LED driver; analogue circuit; blood volume; electro-optical signal; intelligent sensor; low pass filter; peripheral vascular bed; photodetector; photoplethysmograph; pulsations monitoring; smart sensor; virtual instrumentation; Blood; Instruments; Intelligent sensors; Light emitting diodes; Monitoring; Photodetectors; Signal processing; Signal to noise ratio; Systems engineering and theory; Volume measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biomedical Engineering, 2003. IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7943-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APBME.2003.1302714
  • Filename
    1302714