使用灵活和可穿戴的超声波传感器进行骨肌肉收缩的表征
Elliot Yeung1, Ibrahim AlMohimeed2, Yuu Ono1
1Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Progress in molecular biology and translational science
|September 8, 2025
概括
一个新的灵活的可穿戴超声波传感器 (WUS) 能够持续监测骨肌肉收缩. 这项技术准确地测量肌肉机械特性和收缩参数的非侵入性.
科学领域:
- 生物医学工程 生物医学工程
- 生物力学 生物力学
- 超声波传感器技术 超声波传感器技术
背景情况:
- 骨肌收缩监测对于了解生物医学应用中的肌肉机械性质至关重要.
- 现有的方法可能缺乏持续监测所需的灵活性或非侵入性.
- 可穿戴式传感器为体内生理测量提供了一个有前途的方法.
研究的目的:
- 开发和演示一种灵活,可穿戴的超声波传感器 (WUS),用于连续监测骨肌肉收缩.
- 用超声波来描述肌肉机械特性和收缩参数.
- 在健康的人体中验证WUS系统.
主要方法:
- 开发一个单元灵活的可穿戴超声波传感器 (WUS),使用聚乙烯化物压电聚合物薄膜.
- 在超声波脉冲回声技术中应用WUS进行体内监测.
- 使用超声波飞行时间方法来测量在电肌刺激 (EMS) 期间组织厚度的变化.
- 使用融合指数 (FI) 估计肌肉收缩参数和评估性进展.
主要成果:
- WUS表现出稳定的附着,并使三肌收缩的持续监测成为可能.
- 肌肉收缩参数的估计是从2 HzEMS的肌肉抽中得出的.
- 聚变指数 (FI) 从数量上评估了从2 Hz到30 Hz EMS的性进展.
- 从FI频率曲线上准确估计了非融合和融合的结频率.
结论:
- 开发的WUS适用于对骨肌肉收缩性质的非侵入性,持续监测.
- WUS和相关的超声波方法为肌肉机械行为提供了宝贵的见解.
- 这项技术具有各种生物医学应用的潜力,需要评估肌肉功能.
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