New instrument for monitoring hemoglobin oxygenation

A new compact high-performance instrument for monitoring the oxygenation state of the human newborn are developed. First we applied this instrument to the rat head, and next to the human arm. We could confirm that the volume of Oxy-Hb, Deoxy-Hb and total blood volume were well monitored by using our instrument. Now we started to apply this technique to the human newborn. Furthermore, we started the experiments of the near-infrared tomography for the small animals on the basis of this technique.