Smart Textile Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Respiratory Monitoring: Design and Preliminary Trials
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Continuous respiratory monitoring is important to assess adequate ventilation. We present a fiber optic-based smart textile for respiratory monitoring able to work during Magnetic Resonance (MR) examinations. The system is based on the conversion of chest wall movements into strain of two fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, placed on the upper thorax (UT). FBGs are glued on the textile by an adhesive silicon rubber. To increase the system sensitivity, the FBGs positioning was led by preliminary experiments performed using an optoelectronic system: FBGs placed on the chest surface experienced the largest strain during breathing. System performances, in terms of respiratory period (TR), duration of inspiratory (TI) and expiratory (TE) phases, as well as left and right UT volumes, were assessed on four healthy volunteers. The comparison of results obtained by the proposed system and an optoelectronic plethysmography highlights the high accuracy in the estimation of TR, TI, and TE: Bland-Altman analysis shows mean of difference values lower than 0.045 s, 0.33 s, and 0.35 s for TR, TI, and TE, respectively. The mean difference of UT volumes between the two systems is about 8.3%. The promising results foster further development of the system to allow routine use during MR examinations.Continuous respiratory monitoring is important to assess adequate ventilation. We present a fiber optic-based smart textile for respiratory monitoring able to work during Magnetic Resonance (MR) examinations. The system is based on the conversion of chest wall movements into strain of two fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, placed on the upper thorax (UT). FBGs are glued on the textile by an adhesive silicon rubber. To increase the system sensitivity, the FBGs positioning was led by preliminary experiments performed using an optoelectronic system: FBGs placed on the chest surface experienced the largest strain during breathing. System performances, in terms of respiratory period (TR), duration of inspiratory (TI) and expiratory (TE) phases, as well as left and right UT volumes, were assessed on four healthy volunteers. The comparison of results obtained by the proposed system and an optoelectronic plethysmography highlights the high accuracy in the estimation of TR, TI, and TE: Bland-Altman analysis shows mean of difference values lower than 0.045 s, 0.33 s, and 0.35 s for TR, TI, and TE, respectively. The mean difference of UT volumes between the two systems is about 8.3%. The promising results foster further development of the system to allow routine use during MR examinations.
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Commercial T-shirts equipped with a single fiber optic housing two FBGs glued on the textile with silicone rubber can monitor RR and HR waves.
“Furthermore, the commercial T-shirts equipped with a single fiber optic housing two FBGs for RR and HR waves’ monitoring, where the FBGs were glued on the textile with silicone rubber were reported [249,250,251].”
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- Authors
- Ciocchetti, M., Massaroni, C., Saccomandi, P., Caponero, M., Polimadei, A., Formica, D., & Schena, E.
- Affiliations
- Università Campus Bio-Medico (IT)
- National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Schena, Emiliano
- ORCID
- Venue
- Biosensors
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2015-09-14
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 602-615
- ISSN
- 2079-6374 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4600174
- OpenAlex
- W1867009124
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 8
- FWCI
- 6.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Biosensors (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- ENEA Open Archive (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (PRIN2012, 20127XJX57)
- Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Keywords
- fiber Bragg grating sensors, smart textiles, respiratory monitoring, magnetic resonance imaging, ventilation assessment, plethysmography, optoelectronic plethysmography, wearable sensors, non-invasive monitoring, Bland-Altman agreement
- MeSH terms
- Fiber Optic Technology, Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Pulmonary Ventilation, Biosensing Techniques
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