Smart textile for respiratory monitoring and thoraco‐abdominal motion pattern evaluation

The use of wearable systems for monitoring vital parameters has gained wide popularity in several medical fields. The focus of the present study is the experimental assessment of a smart textile based on 12 fiber Bragg grating sensors for breathing monitoring and thoraco‐abdominal motion pattern ana...

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Published in:Journal of biophotonics 2018-05, Vol.11 (5), p.e201700263-n/a
Main Authors: Massaroni, Carlo, Venanzi, Cecilia, Silvatti, Amanda P., Lo Presti, Daniela, Saccomandi, Paola, Formica, Domenico, Giurazza, Francesco, Caponero, Michele A., Schena, Emiliano
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Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Bias
Breathing
breathing monitoring
Feasibility studies
fiber Bragg gratings
fiber optics
Monitoring
Parameters
Pattern analysis
Respiration
smart textiles
wearables
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Summary:The use of wearable systems for monitoring vital parameters has gained wide popularity in several medical fields. The focus of the present study is the experimental assessment of a smart textile based on 12 fiber Bragg grating sensors for breathing monitoring and thoraco‐abdominal motion pattern analysis. The feasibility of the smart textile for monitoring several temporal respiratory parameters (ie, breath‐by‐breath respiratory period, breathing frequency, duration of inspiratory and expiratory phases), volume variations of the whole chest wall and of its compartments is performed on 8 healthy male volunteers. Values gathered by the textile are compared to the data obtained by a motion analysis system, used as the reference instrument. Good agreement between the 2 systems on both respiratory period (bias of 0.01 seconds), breathing frequency (bias of −0.02 breaths/min) and tidal volume (bias of 0.09 L) values is demonstrated. Smart textile shows good performance in the monitoring of thoraco‐abdominal pattern and its variation, as well. Wearable textiles are attracting considerable attention in the medical field, especially for monitoring the human breathing activity. A smart textile based on 12 fiber Bragg grating sensors for breath‐by‐breath breathing monitoring and thoraco‐abdominal motion pattern analysis is presented here. The results of this work demonstrate the feasibility of the use of fiber optic‐based textiles for accurate detection of abnormalities in breathing pattern and biomechanical analysis.
ISSN:1864-063X
1864-0648
DOI:10.1002/jbio.201700263