An investigation of Rabbit Corneal birefringence for the purpose of improving noninvasive polarimetric in-vivo glucose detection

Author

Baba, J.S. ; Cote, G.L. ; Theru, S.

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1787

Abstract

The aqueous humor, contained in the anterior chamber of the eye, has been confirmed to be the optimal sensing site for the noninvasive polarimetric measurement of glucose for diabetics. However, motion artifact induced by the respiratory and cardiac processes have made this measurement difficult. In order to overcome this effect, it is necessary to determine the variations in corneal birefringence as a function of corneal position. For this paper, we describe the results obtained from a polarimetric system we designed and implemented for this determination. Both the experimental and theoretical results we present are in agreement.

Keywords

bio-optics; biochemistry; biomedical measurement; birefringence; diseases; eye; organic compounds; polarimetry; aqueous humor; cardiac processes; diabetes; motion artifact; noninvasive polarimetric in-vivo glucose detection improvement; ocular optics; rabbit corneal birefringence investigation; respiratory processes; Biomedical measurements; Birefringence; Diabetes; Diseases; Laser beams; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Rabbits; Sugar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053025

Filename

1053025