Accuracy of Tissue Oxygen Saturation Measurements of a Textile-Based NIRS Sensor.

Cantieni, Tarcisi; da Silva-Kress, Oliver; Wolf, Ursula (2023). Accuracy of Tissue Oxygen Saturation Measurements of a Textile-Based NIRS Sensor. Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 1438, pp. 83-86. New York: Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-42003-0_14

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Pressure injuries (PI) are dangerous tissue lesions that heal very slowly and pose a high risk of serious infections. They are caused by pressure applied to the tissue, which stops blood circulation and therefore induces hypoxia, i.e., low tissue oxygen saturation (StO2). PI cause severe suffering and are expensive to treat. Hence it is essential to prevent them with a device that detects a dangerous situation, e.g., by measuring StO2 using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). For such a device to be wearable without causing PI, it must not introduce pressure points itself. This can be achieved by integrating optical fibers into a textile to transport light to and from the tissue.The aim of this paper is to investigate the accuracy of StO2 measurements using a NIRS device based only on textile-integrated optical fibers.Bundles of fibers were stitched into a textile in such a way that loops of <1 mm diameters were formed at the stitching locations. Detection points (DPs) on the fabric consisted of 8 fibers with 3 loops each. Emission points (EPs) were made from 4 fibers with 3 loops each. All fiber ends of a DP were connected to an avalanche photodiode. One end of each fiber belonging to an EP was connected to an LED (740 nm, 810 nm, or 880 nm; 290, 560, or 610 mW).To verify the accuracy of this textile-based sensor, we placed it on a subject's forearm and compared the derived StO2 during arterial occlusion to the values of a gold-standard NIRS device (ISS Imagent), which was placed on the forearm too.We found that our textile-based sensor repeatedly measured StO2 values over a range of 40% with a deviation of <10% from the reference device.By showing the ability to measure StO2 using textile-integrated optical fibers accurately, we have reached a significant milestone on our way to building a wearable device to monitor tissue health and prevent PI.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (IKIM)
04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Anthroposophically Extended Medicine (AeM)

UniBE Contributor:

Cantieni, Tarcisi, Kress, Oliver, Wolf, Ursula

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0065-2598

ISBN:

978-3-031-42003-0

Series:

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

25 Oct 2023 11:18

Last Modified:

21 Dec 2023 14:42

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/978-3-031-42003-0_14

PubMed ID:

37845444

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Near-infrared spectroscopy Textile-based NIRS sensor Tissue oxygenation

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/187240

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/187240

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