A Study on the Arterial Pulse Wave Measuring System of an Oral Cavity

구강 내부 맥파 계측을 위한 센서 시스템 연구

  • Kim, Kyung-Ho (Department of Electronic Engineering, Dankook University)
  • 김경호 (단국대학교 전자공학과)
  • Published : 2007.12.30

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel sensor system for measuring the arterial pulse in an oral cavity. In order to measure pulse wave in oral cavity, the proposed system is designed with reflection type arterial wave sensor, not by using transmission type arterial pulse wave sensor. Driving circuit through pulse current is designed for solving self-heating problem of LED. The effectiveness of the proposed sensor system is compared with pulse wave between pulse wave of oral cavity and other body parts as well as with characteristic measurements. The experiment shows that the proposed sensor system is adaptive to capturing consecutive and meaningful biometric signals through the variation of pulse wave changes in oral cavity when exercising. The study result expects to design and develop mobile sensors which could be adapted to healthcare devices.

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