Optical Based Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring Sensor Prototype

Diabetes mellitus claims millions of lives every year. It affects the body in various ways by leading to many serious illnesses and premature mortality. Heart and kidney diseases, which are caused by diabetes, are increasing at an alarming rate. In this paper, we report a study of a noninvasive meas...

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Main Authors: Shyqyri Haxha, Jaspreet Jhoja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7782291/
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Summary:Diabetes mellitus claims millions of lives every year. It affects the body in various ways by leading to many serious illnesses and premature mortality. Heart and kidney diseases, which are caused by diabetes, are increasing at an alarming rate. In this paper, we report a study of a noninvasive measurement technique to determine the glucose levels in the human body. Current existing methods to quantify the glucose level in the blood are predominantly invasive that involve taking the blood samples using finger pricking. In this paper, we report a spectroscopy-based noninvasive glucose monitoring system to measure glucose concentration. Near-infrared transmission spectroscopy is used and <italic>in vitro</italic> experiments are conducted, as well as <italic>in vivo</italic>. Our experimental study confirms a correlation between the sensor output voltage and glucose concentration levels. We report a low-cost prototype of spectroscopy-based noninvasive glucose monitoring system that demonstrates promising results <italic>in vitro</italic> and establishes a relationship between the optical signals and the changing levels of blood&#x2013;glucose concentration.
ISSN:1943-0655