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A Flexible, Low Noise Reflective PPG Sensor Platform for Ear-Worn Heart Rate Monitoring

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A novel ear-worn reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor that addresses the mechanical complexities of coupling the sensor to the surface of the skin and a detection circuit that minimises ambient noise artefacts is presented.
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This paper presents a novel ear-worn reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor that addresses the mechanical complexities of coupling the sensor to the surface of the skin and a detection circuit that minimises ambient noise artefacts. The flexible optoelectronic transducer structure can adapt to a variety of skin surface contours. Light emitting diode (LED) modulation and a unique integrating photocurrent demodulator reduce susceptibility to wideband noise and allow subtraction of ambient light from the desired PPG signal. Experimental results demonstrate that the sensitivity is robust to sensor location and application pressure variations. Simulations also show that the photodetection method is resilient against high levels of wideband noise.

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Body sensor networks

TL;DR: The aim of the BSN is to provide a truly personalised monitoring platform that is pervasive, intelligent, and effective in patients with chronic diseases such as heart disease.
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Sensor Networks

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Artifact-resistant power-efficient design of finger-ring plethysmographic sensors

TL;DR: benchmarking tests with FDA-approved PPG and electrocardiogram reveal that the ring sensor is comparable to those devices in detecting beat-to-beat pulsation despite disturbances, and designed and built based on the power budget analysis and the artifact-resistive attachment method.
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Noninvasive pulse oximetry utilizing skin reflectance photoplethysmography

TL;DR: The results from a series of in vivo studies to evaluate a prototype skin-reflectance pulse oximeter in humans are presented, showing locally heating the skin is shown to increase the pulsatile component of the reflected photoplethysmograms.
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Spectrophotometric monitoring of arterial oxygen saturation in the fingertip

TL;DR: The instrument has been useful in monitoring arterial oxygenation in patients with respiratory failure in the authors' intensive-care unit and the reproducibility was assessed in a healthy subject by measuring the oxygen saturation repeatedly 60 times.
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