Title :
A preliminary study on optical measurements of glucose concentration using a surface plasmon resonance system
Author :
Pun, S.H. ; Lam, W.W. ; Ho, H.P. ; Zhang, Y.T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
Optical glucose measurement is an attractive research topic for years. One of the goals is to develop a portable device for continuous and non-invasive monitoring of blood glucose for diabetics. In this work, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system, which has a high detection sensitivity of 7.61×10-7 refractive index unit (RIU), is utilized for measuring the glucose concentration in aqueous solution. The experimental results show that this approach, which measures the optical behavior of glucose solution, may possibly reveal a new pathway for the non-invasive measurement of blood glucose.
Keywords :
blood; diseases; organic compounds; patient monitoring; refractive index measurement; surface plasmon resonance; aqueous solution; blood glucose; diabetics; glucose concentration; medical instrumentation; medical monitoring system; noninvasive measurement; optical measurements; surface plasmon resonance system; Blood; Diabetes; Monitoring; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Plasmons; Refractive index; Resonance; Sugar;
Conference_Titel :
Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering, 2002. Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7557-2
DOI :
10.1109/MCTE.2002.1175008
