Title
Smart textile based on FBG sensors for breath-by-breath respiratory monitoring: tests on women
Abstract
The use of wearable systems for monitoring vital parameters has gained wide popularity in several medical fields, especially in the respiratory monitoring. The focus of the present study is the experimental assessment of a male-fit smart textile based on twelve fiber Bragg grating sensors for the monitoring of respiratory parameters on eight female volunteers. In particular, breath-by-breath temporal respiratory parameters (i.e., respiratory period, breathing frequency, duration of inspiratory and expiratory phases), and breath-by-breath volume variations (i.e., tidal volume measurements) have been estimated by the sensor's outputs of the t-shirt. Results show good agreement between measurements carried out by the smart textile and the reference instrument (i.e., motion capture system with passive markers), with a bias of 0.002 s for the respiratory period and of 0.014 breaths·min <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-1</sup> for breathing frequency. However, bias found in the comparison of breath-bybreath tidal volumes discourages the use of the present smart textile for volume monitoring in female population. The promising results promote further development of the system to allow continuous monitoring in clinical setting and for tele-monitoring purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MeMeA.2018.8438721
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Breathing monitoring,motion capture,smart textile,wearables,Fiber Bragg Gratings
Population,Tidal volume,Fiber Bragg grating,Wearable computer,Computer science,Respiratory rate,Continuous monitoring,Respiratory system,Respiratory monitoring,Acoustics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-3393-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniela Lo Presti1144.42
C Massaroni25426.42
Paola Saccomandi38930.36
Emiliano Schena410643.86
Domenico Formica58826.60
Michele Arturo Caponero62710.83
Giulia Di Tomaso700.34