Evaluation of Chip LED Sensor Module for Fat Thickness Measurement using Tissue Phantoms

Author

Hwang, In Duk ; Shin, Kunsoo ; Ho, Dong-Su ; Kim, Beop-Min

Author_Institution

Interaction Lab., Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., Suwon

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

5993

Lastpage

5996

Abstract

We tested the feasibility of noninvasive fat thickness measurements by using a diffuse optical method with variable source-detector pairs. A light source module composed of 770 nm low-power chip LEDs and a photodetector were used in this study. The tissue phantoms are composed of a fat and a muscle layer made with gels with appropriate absorption/scattering coefficients. The fat thickness was varied from several to 30 mm. Based on this preliminary study, it is concluded that the noninvasive fat thickness measurement is possible with proper curve fitting procedure

Keywords

bio-optics; biomedical measurement; curve fitting; gels; light emitting diodes; muscle; optical sensors; phantoms; photodetectors; thickness measurement; 30 mm; 770 nm; absorption-scattering coefficients; chip LED sensor module; curve fitting procedure; diffuse optical method; light source module; muscle layer; noninvasive fat thickness measurement; photodetector; tissue phantom; variable source-detector pairs; Absorption; Imaging phantoms; Light emitting diodes; Light sources; Muscles; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Photodetectors; Testing; Thickness measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259965

Filename

4463173