Smart Sensors for Healthcare and Medical Applications

Piezoresistive Sensors for Medical Applications

Rectal manometry provide a useful method to objectively assess the physiology of defecation. We developed a probe with 10 embedded transducers for evaluating the dynamic rectal pressure profile. The innovation of the probe is to use small piezoresistive dice and reduce the packaging resulting in a very small assembly. The diameter of the probe is 9 mm with a length of 20 cm. The length could be...

Justification of Smart Sensors for Nuclear Applications

This paper describes the results of a research study sponsored by the UK nuclear industry into methods of justifying smart sensors. Smart sensors are increasingly being used in the nuclear industry; they have potential benefits such as greater accuracy and better noise filtering, and in many cases their analogue counterparts are no longer manufactured. However, smart sensors (as it is the case ...

Smart sensors: Physics, technology and applications

The semiconductor technology has advanced a rapid progress in the sensors which are heart of instrumentation systems. These days, most of the sensors are ‘smart’ in nature. In such sensors, the sensing elements and associated electronics are integrated on the same chip. Generally, silicon is preferred as sensor material because it can give a suitable physical conversion effect and can give suit...

Simulation in Healthcare for Advanced Medical ApplicatioNs

Image Sensors in Security and Medical Applications

This paper briefly reviews CMOS image sensor technology and its utilization in security and medical applications. The role and future trends of image sensors in each of the applications are discussed. To provide the reader deeper understanding of the technology aspects the paper concentrates on the selected applications such as surveillance, biometrics, capsule endoscopy and artificial retina. ...