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Optical Fiber Technology for eHealthcare

Optical Fiber Technology for eHealthcare
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Author(s): Nélia Jordão Alberto (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Lúcia Maria Botas Bilro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Paulo Fernando da Costa Antunes (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Cátia Sofia Jorge Leitão (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Hugo Filipe Teixeira Lima (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Paulo Sérgio de Brito André (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Rogério Nunes Nogueira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)and João de Lemos Pinto (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 24
Source title: Wearable Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5484-4.ch069

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Abstract

In the last years, optical fiber based sensors and systems for ehealthcare attracted the attention of the scientific community. Over this chapter, optical fiber technology is presented, referring the different types of optical fibers, its main characteristics, and advantages over other sensing methodologies. In addition, optical fiber based sensors and sensing techniques are discussed and several works reported in the literature are reviewed showing that they are a valuable technique to improve healthcare service to the community and as a potential solution to answer different problems. The final section of the chapter consists of the description of three applications of optical sensors in healthcare, namely monitoring of human joint movement, measuring strain of biological tissues, and characterization of medical materials.

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