A piezo-electric bone dynamic sensor for bio-medical applications

Author

Singh, Kanika ; Singh, V.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum., Kurukshetra Univ., India

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Bone is now a well established piezo-electric material. This property is used to develop a dynamic sensor for biomedical measurements, particularly to study the bone conditioning, under vibration. The sensor is found to work efficiently in the frequency range of 0.5 KHz to 50 KHz with the advantages of low cost and ease of fabrication. It has been tested in acoustic transmission studies of the bone to detect a fracture, its union and rate of healing

Keywords

bioacoustics; bioelectric phenomena; biomechanics; biomedical transducers; bone; patient monitoring; piezoelectric materials; piezoelectric transducers; vibrations; 0.5 to 50 kHz; acoustic transmission; biomedical applications; bone; bone conditioning; ease of fabrication; fracture; frequency range; low cost; piezoelectric bone dynamic sensor; rate of healing; vibration; Acoustic sensors; Biological materials; Biomedical materials; Biomedical measurements; Biosensors; Bones; Costs; Fabrication; Frequency; Vibration measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803986

Filename

803986