M-health: trends in wearable medical devices.
- Author:
Xiao-fei TENG
1
;
Yuan-Ting ZHANG
Author Information
1. Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Biomedical Technology;
instrumentation;
Clothing;
Equipment Design;
Monitoring, Ambulatory;
instrumentation;
Textiles
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation
2006;30(5):330-340
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the trends in wearable medical devices for the applications in m-health. The state-of-art technologies for the continuous and noninvasive measurements of physiological parameters, implementation platforms of wearable medical devices - e-textile, and body sensor networks are reviewed here with examples of related recent research projects conducted in different countries. In addition, we introduce our recent research project on the e-textile-based health shirt (h-shirt), which can measure arterial blood pressure noninvasively, continuously and cufflessly.
