The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki

This paper presents the development of heart rate monitoring using finger detector. The portable hardware consists of circuit design for heart rate is developed as a medical tool to measure the cardiovascular pulse wave that is found throughout the human body. An ordinary infrared LED / photodetecto...

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Main Author: Baki, Hanif
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Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/102921/1/102921.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.1029212024-12-02T03:19:34Z The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki 2006 Baki, Hanif Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system Detectors. Sensors. Sensor networks This paper presents the development of heart rate monitoring using finger detector. The portable hardware consists of circuit design for heart rate is developed as a medical tool to measure the cardiovascular pulse wave that is found throughout the human body. An ordinary infrared LED / photodetector can sense this rhythmic change as small as but detectable variation in skin contrast. When gently held against the skin (too much pressure will flatten the surface capillaries and suppress the pulsation effect), some of the radiation from LED, reflects back into photodetector. Photodetector produces an analogue pulse for every 1% change in skin reflectance. This logarithmic relationship is constant over many orders of magnitude of photodetector. Consequently, reliable circuit operation is possible despite wide variations n skin contrast and light level. Oscilloscope is used to monitor the heart rate signal. 2006 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/102921/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/102921/1/102921.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
spellingShingle Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Baki, Hanif
The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki
description This paper presents the development of heart rate monitoring using finger detector. The portable hardware consists of circuit design for heart rate is developed as a medical tool to measure the cardiovascular pulse wave that is found throughout the human body. An ordinary infrared LED / photodetector can sense this rhythmic change as small as but detectable variation in skin contrast. When gently held against the skin (too much pressure will flatten the surface capillaries and suppress the pulsation effect), some of the radiation from LED, reflects back into photodetector. Photodetector produces an analogue pulse for every 1% change in skin reflectance. This logarithmic relationship is constant over many orders of magnitude of photodetector. Consequently, reliable circuit operation is possible despite wide variations n skin contrast and light level. Oscilloscope is used to monitor the heart rate signal.
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author Baki, Hanif
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title The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki
title_short The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki
title_full The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki
title_fullStr The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki
title_full_unstemmed The development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / Hanif Baki
title_sort development of heart rate monitor using finger detector / hanif baki
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2006
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/102921/1/102921.pdf
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