FINGER PLETHSYMOGRAPH TO MEASURE BLOOD RESISTIVITY


Computer Engineering
electronics Engineering
Civil Engineering

Impedance plethysmography can be used to measure arterial volume change that occurs with propagation of the blood pressure pulse in a limb segment. For this measurement, we assume a constant value of blood resistivity. However, blood resistivity may change under both physiological and pathological conditions. Use of an impedance plethysmograph on a finger immersed in a saline filled beaker may yield a method for determining this change in blood resistivity. This may develop into a method that diabetics can use to measure glucose levels non-invasively. The goal of our project is to design a finger plethysmograph to measure blood resistivity.




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