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A Wearable Real-Time and Non-Invasive Thoracic Cavity Monitoring System

Salman, Safa
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4688-656X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440345566

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
A surgery-free on-body monitoring system is proposed to evaluate the dielectric constant of internal body tissues (especially lung and heart) and effectively determine irregularities in real-time. The proposed surgery-free on-body monitoring system includes a sensor, a post-processing technique, and an automated data collection circuit. Data are automatically collected from the sensor electrodes and then post processed to extract the electrical properties of the underlying biological tissue(s). To demonstrate the imaging concept, planar and wrap-around sensors are devised. These sensors are designed to detect changes in the dielectric constant of inner tissues (lung and heart). The planar sensor focuses on a single organ while the wrap-around sensors allows for imaging of the thoracic cavity’s cross section. Moreover, post-processing techniques are proposed to complement sensors for a more complete on-body monitoring system. The idea behind the post-processing technique is to suppress interference from the outer layers (skin, fat, muscle, and bone). The sensors and post-processing techniques yield high signal (from the inner layers) to noise (from the outer layers) ratio. Additionally, data collection circuits are proposed for a more robust and stand-alone system. The circuit design aims to sequentially activate each port of the sensor and portions of the propagating signal are to be received at all passive ports in the form of a voltage at the probes. The voltages are converted to scattering parameters which are then used in the post-processing technique to obtain ¿r. The concept of wearability is also considered through the use of electrically conductive fibers (E-fibers). These fibers show matching performance to that of copper, especially at low frequencies making them a viable substitute. For the cases considered, the proposed sensors show promising results in recovering the permittivity of deep tissues with a maximum error of 13.5%. These sensors provide a way for a new class of medical sensors through accuracy improvements and avoidance of inverse scattering techniques.
John Volakis, Dr. (Advisor)
Fernando Teixeira, Dr. (Committee Member)
Bradley Clymer, Dr. (Committee Member)
119 p.
Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Research; Electrical Engineering; Electromagnetics; Engineering

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  • Salman, S. (2015). A Wearable Real-Time and Non-Invasive Thoracic Cavity Monitoring System [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440345566

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Salman, Safa. A Wearable Real-Time and Non-Invasive Thoracic Cavity Monitoring System. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440345566.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Salman, Safa. "A Wearable Real-Time and Non-Invasive Thoracic Cavity Monitoring System." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440345566

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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