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Smart textile for respiratory monitoring and thoraco‐abdominal motion pattern evaluation
Author(s) -
Massaroni Carlo,
Venanzi Cecilia,
Silvatti Amanda P.,
Lo Presti Daniela,
Saccomandi Paola,
Formica Domenico,
Giurazza Francesco,
Caponero Michele A.,
Schena Emiliano
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201700263
Subject(s) - respiratory monitoring , breathing , tidal volume , respiratory system , wearable computer , biomedical engineering , textile , medicine , acoustics , computer science , materials science , anesthesia , physics , composite material , embedded system
The use of wearable systems for monitoring vital parameters has gained wide popularity in several medical fields. The focus of the present study is the experimental assessment of a smart textile based on 12 fiber Bragg grating sensors for breathing monitoring and thoraco‐abdominal motion pattern analysis. The feasibility of the smart textile for monitoring several temporal respiratory parameters (ie, breath‐by‐breath respiratory period, breathing frequency, duration of inspiratory and expiratory phases), volume variations of the whole chest wall and of its compartments is performed on 8 healthy male volunteers. Values gathered by the textile are compared to the data obtained by a motion analysis system, used as the reference instrument. Good agreement between the 2 systems on both respiratory period (bias of 0.01 seconds), breathing frequency (bias of −0.02 breaths/min) and tidal volume (bias of 0.09 L) values is demonstrated. Smart textile shows good performance in the monitoring of thoraco‐abdominal pattern and its variation, as well.