Juliet Ippolito

TL;DR: A fiber optic sensing system for pressure measurement in invasive urodynamics is presented and experimentally validated, showing the premises for an EFPI-based diagnostic tool.

TL;DR: The results confirm that the integration of fiber optic sensors with commercial medical instrumentation for temperature monitoring during radio frequency ablation for tumor treatment was able to make a multipoint measurement and to develop a real-time temperature profile of the area.

TL;DR: The optical urodynamic system demonstrated a higher dynamic and better sensitivity to detect small obstructions than both pre-existing medical systems currently in use in the urod dynamic field.

TL;DR: The results show the effectiveness of the proposed method at assessing the TA probe depth and demonstrating how the insertion depth directly influences the maximum temperature and the treated area of the radio frequency ablation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed the integration of fiber optic sensors with commercial medical instrumentation, for temperature monitoring during tumor radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFTA) treatments, by means of a specific configuration, consisting of several Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors properly bounded to the RFTA probe and being positioned close to the region reached by RF electrodes.