Magnetic Induction Tomography (MIT), which is also known as Electromagnetic Tomography (EMT) or Mutual Inductance Tomography, is among the imaging modalities of interest to many researchers around the world. This noninvasive modality applies an electromagnetic field and is sensitive to all three passive electromagnetic properties of a material that are conductivity, permittivity and permeability. MIT is categorized under the passive imaging family with an electrodeless technique through the use of excitation coils to induce an electromagnetic field in the material, which is then measured at the receiving side by sensors. The aim of this review is to discuss the challenges of the MIT technique and summarize the recent advancements in the transmitters and sensors, with a focus on applications in biological tissue imaging. It is hoped that this review will provide some valuable information on the MIT for those who have interest in this modality. The need of this knowledge may speed up the process of adopted of MIT as a medical imaging technology.
Sweat analysis offers non-invasive real-time on-body measurement for wearable sensors. However, there are still gaps in current developed sweat-sensing devices (SSDs) regarding the concerns of mixing fresh and old sweat and real-time measurement, which are the requirements to ensure accurate the measurement of wearable devices. This review paper discusses these limitations by aiding model designs, features, performance, and the device operation for exploring the SSDs used in different sweat collection tools, focusing on continuous and non-continuous flow sweat analysis. In addition, the paper also comprehensively presents various sweat biomarkers that have been explored by earlier works in order to broaden the use of non-invasive sweat samples in healthcare and related applications. This work also discusses the target analyte’s response mechanism for different sweat compositions, categories of sweat collection devices, and recent advances in SSDs regarding optimal design, functionality, and performance.
1 October 2008 in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
The aim of this study is to design a Fuzzy Expert System (FES) for diagnosis of hypertension risk for patients aged between 20's, 30's and 40's years and is divided into male and female gender. The input data is collected from a total of 10 people which consists of male and female with different working background. The parameters used as input for this fuzzy expert system were age, Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure and heart rate. Hypertension is diagnosed if blood pressure is over than 140/90mmHg. Hypertension is called the silent killer because it has no symptoms and can cause serious disease if left untreated for a long time. Thus, an intelligent and accurate diagnostic system is needed in order to threat the hypertension patient. It is expected that our proposed Fuzzy Expert System can provide a faster, cheaper and more accurate result compared with other traditional methods.
1 October 2014 in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical