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Accurate neonatal heart rate monitoring using a new wireless, cap mounted device (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Acta Paediatrica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation Acta Paediatrica Aim: A device for newborn heart rate (HR) monitoring at birth that is compatible with delayed cord clamping and minimises hypothermia r... Read More about Accurate neonatal heart rate monitoring using a new wireless, cap mounted device.

Optical fibre sensor for simultaneous measurement of capillary refill time and contact pressure (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The widely applied capillary refill time (CRT) measurement is currently performed by manually applying pressure and using a stopwatch to record the time taken for the skin to recover its norma... Read More about Optical fibre sensor for simultaneous measurement of capillary refill time and contact pressure.

Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections (2020)
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Real time monitoring of bacterial attachment to medical devices provides opportunities to detect early biofilm formation and instigate appropriate interventions before infection develops. This study utilises long period grating (LPG) optical fibre se... Read More about Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections.

Multi-parameter optical fibre sensing of gaseous ammonia and carbon dioxide (2019)
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Ammonia (NH3) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are important breath biomarkers for diagnosis of renal and respiratory diseases. Simultaneous sensing of the two gases is useful for assessment of Helicobacter Pylori infection. This study introduces a multi-par... Read More about Multi-parameter optical fibre sensing of gaseous ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Numerical Simulation of a Scanning Illumination System for Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging (2019)
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he spatial resolution and light detected in fluorescence imaging for small animals are limited by light scattering, absorption and autofluorescence. To address this, novel near-infrared fluorescent contrast agents and imaging configurations have been... Read More about Numerical Simulation of a Scanning Illumination System for Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging.

Simultaneous in situ temperature and relative humidity monitoring in mechanical ventilators using an array of functionalised optical fibre long period grating sensors (2019)
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An array of optical fibre long period gratings (LPGs) has been demonstrated for biomedical application to monitor temperature and relative humidity (RH) changes in the air delivered by a mechanical ventilator operating in different modes. The LPG arr... Read More about Simultaneous in situ temperature and relative humidity monitoring in mechanical ventilators using an array of functionalised optical fibre long period grating sensors.

A reflection-mode fibre-optic sensor for breath carbon dioxide measurement in healthcare (2018)
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A reflection-mode carbon dioxide (CO2) fibre optic sensor (FOS) is developed based on the colorimetric change of pH indicator dye thymol blue. The CO2 sensing film comprises thymol blue and tetramethylammonium hydroxide in the form of an ion pair dop... Read More about A reflection-mode fibre-optic sensor for breath carbon dioxide measurement in healthcare.

Investigation of the performance of hyperspectral imaging by principal component analysis in the prediction of healing of diabetic foot ulcers (2018)
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Diabetic foot ulcers are a major complication of diabetes and present a considerable burden for both patients and health care providers. As healing often takes many months, a method of determining which ulcers would be most likely to heal would be of... Read More about Investigation of the performance of hyperspectral imaging by principal component analysis in the prediction of healing of diabetic foot ulcers.

Optical Fibre-Based Pulse Oximetry Sensor with Contact Force Detection (2018)
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Mucosal injury following short term tracheal intubation: a novel animal model and composite injury score (2018)
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Objectives: Postintubation laryngotracheal injury is common. Assessment of histopathological changes currently requires animal models. We set about developing a viable, resource effective animal model to study these effects and to develop a detailed... Read More about Mucosal injury following short term tracheal intubation: a novel animal model and composite injury score.

Biomedical application of optical fibre sensors (2018)
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Optical fibre sensors(OFS), as a result of their unique properties such as small size, no interference with electromagnetic radiation, high sensitivity and the ability to design multiplexed or distributed sensing systems, have found applications rang... Read More about Biomedical application of optical fibre sensors.

Highly sensitive label-free antibody detection using a long period fibre grating sensor (2018)
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An optical fibre long period grating (LPG) biosensor is appealing in the detection of biomolecules because of the high sensitivity, label-free and real-time measurement. The miniaturized size, ability of remote sensing and immunity to electromagnetic... Read More about Highly sensitive label-free antibody detection using a long period fibre grating sensor.

Ultrasound-mediation of self-illuminating reporters improves imaging resolution in optically scattering media (2018)
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In vivo imaging of self-illuminating bio-and chemiluminescent reporters is used to observe the physiology of small animals. However, strong light scattering by biological tissues results in poor spatial resolution of the optical imaging, which also d... Read More about Ultrasound-mediation of self-illuminating reporters improves imaging resolution in optically scattering media.

Highly sensitive volatile organic compounds vapour measurements using a long period grating optical fibre sensor coated with metal organic framework ZIF-8 (2018)
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An optical fibre long period grating (LPG) based volatile organic compound (VOC) sensor coated with ZIF-8, a material from the zeolite imidazolate framework (ZIF) family, functional coating is presented. ZIF-8 film was deposited onto the surface of t... Read More about Highly sensitive volatile organic compounds vapour measurements using a long period grating optical fibre sensor coated with metal organic framework ZIF-8.

Carbon dioxide measurements using long period grating optical fibre sensor coated with metal organic framework HKUST-1 (2017)
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An optical fibre long period grating (LPG) based carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor coated with HKUST-1, a material from the metal organic framework family, functional coating is presented. In-situ crystallization and layer by layer (LbL) techniques of HKUS... Read More about Carbon dioxide measurements using long period grating optical fibre sensor coated with metal organic framework HKUST-1.

Polymeric optical fibre sensor coated by SiO2 nanoparticles for humidity sensing in the skin microenvironment (2017)
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The sensitivity of a low-cost polymeric optical fibre humidity sensor based on transmittance changes due to evanescent wave absorption is reported using test measurements in an environmental chamber and of the skin. The layer-by-layer method was used... Read More about Polymeric optical fibre sensor coated by SiO2 nanoparticles for humidity sensing in the skin microenvironment.

Nanoscale ultrasound-switchable FRET based liposomes for near-infrared fluorescence imaging in optically turbid media (2017)
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A new approach to fluorescence imaging in optically turbid media centered on the use of nanoscale ultrasound-switchable FRET based liposome contrast agents is reported. Liposomes containing lipophilic carbocyanine dyes as FRET pairs with emission wav... Read More about Nanoscale ultrasound-switchable FRET based liposomes for near-infrared fluorescence imaging in optically turbid media.

Ultrasound induced fluorescence of nanoscale liposome contrast agents (2016)
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A new imaging contrast agent is reported that provides an increased fluorescent signal upon application of ultrasound (US). Liposomes containing lipids labelled with pyrene were optically excited and the excimer fluorescence emission intensity was de... Read More about Ultrasound induced fluorescence of nanoscale liposome contrast agents.

Simultaneous temperature and humidity measurements in a mechanical ventilator using an optical fibre sensor (2016)
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An optical fibre sensor for simultaneous temperature and humidity measurements consisting of one fibre Bragg grating (FBG) to measure temperature and a mesoporous film of bilayers of Poly(allylamine hydrochloride)(PAH) and silica (SiO2) nanoparticles... Read More about Simultaneous temperature and humidity measurements in a mechanical ventilator using an optical fibre sensor.

Polymeric fibre optic sensor based on a SiO2 nanoparticle film for humidity sensing on wounds (2016)
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© 2016 SPIE. Optical fibre sensors have the potential to be incorporated into wound dressings to monitor moisture and predict healing without the need to remove the dressing. A low cost polymeric optical fibre humidity sensor based on evanescent wave... Read More about Polymeric fibre optic sensor based on a SiO2 nanoparticle film for humidity sensing on wounds.