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Real-Time Monitoring of Neurocritical Patients with Diffuse Optical Spectroscopies
Published on: November 19, 2020
Portable optical fiber probe for in vivo brain temperature measurements
Stefan Musolino1, Erik P Schartner2, Georgios Tsiminis1
1ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Abstract:
This work reports on the development of an optical fiber based probe for in vivo measurements of brain temperature. By utilizing a thin layer of rare-earth doped tellurite glass on the tip of a conventional silica optical fiber a robust probe, suitable for long-term in vivo measurements of temperature can be fabricated. This probe can be interrogated using a portable optical measurement setup, allowing for measurements to be performed outside of standard optical laboratories.
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