Development of Skin Moisture and Body Fat Measurement System for Mobile Application

VernacularTitle:面向手机应用的皮肤水分与人体脂肪测量系统的研制
Author: Naihan HUANG ¹ ; Xiang CHEN ; Congzheng WANG ; Zhongfei DONG
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1. 中国科学技术大学电子科学与技术系
Keywords: mobile health; skin moisture measurement; body fat measurement; local body fat measurement
From: Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation 2014;(2):79-83
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Integrating physiological parameters measurement into mobile devices is a development tendency of mobile healthcare. Measurement methods for skin moisture and body fat content are studied in this paper. Electrodes are designed for easy integration into mobile devices, and can be embedded in the cover of the mobile phone. Experiments were conducted to obtain a fast and easy measurement method. The results of evaluation show that the measurement system can achieve the same accuracy as commercial products (with correlation above 0.9 and root mean squared error below 4%) in skin moisture and body fat content measurement. Measurement of local-area body fat content showed a nearly linear positive correlation between local-area body fat content and local-area body impedance.