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Portable optical fiber biosensors integrated with smartphone: technologies, applications, and challenges [Invited]
Chengwei Yang1, Zhuo Wang1, Kun Xiao2
1Center for Cognition and Neuroergonomics, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China.
Biomedical Optics Express
|March 18, 2024
Summary
Portable optical fiber biosensors combined with smartphones offer advanced health monitoring. This review covers their hardware, applications, and challenges for future development.
Area of Science:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Sensor Technology
- Mobile Health
Background:
- Growing demand for personalized health monitoring and diagnostics.
- Optical fiber biosensors offer versatile qualitative and quantitative sensing.
- Smartphones provide computational power and sensing capabilities for portable solutions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To extensively evaluate optical fiber biosensors integrated with smartphones.
- To analyze hardware, sensing approaches, and integration methods.
- To explore diverse applications in physiological and chemical biosensing.
Main Methods:
- Comprehensive review of existing literature on optical fiber biosensors and smartphone integration.
- Analysis of hardware components and system architectures.
- Examination of various sensing principles and application domains.
Main Results:
- Identification of key hardware complexities and integration strategies.
- Demonstration of diverse applications in physiological and chemical biosensing.
- Overview of current sensing approaches and their performance.
Conclusions:
- Optical fiber biosensors with smartphones represent a promising portable sensing solution.
- Significant challenges remain in hardware integration and standardization.
- Future research should focus on addressing identified challenges for broader adoption.
