TY - GEN
T1 - Optical fibre pressure and temperature sensor system designed for urodynamic applications
AU - Duraibabu, Dineshbabu
AU - Kelly, Niall
AU - Poeggel, Sven
AU - Flood, Hugh
AU - Yuan, Hongwei
AU - Dooly, Gerard
AU - McGrath, Deirdre
AU - Tosi, Daniele
AU - Lewis, Elfed
AU - Leen, Gabriel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 SPIE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper presents an optical fibre pressure and temperature sensor (OFPTS) system, which is adapted for use as a urodynamic pressure measurement system (UPS) for differential pressure measurement with temperature compensation. The OFTPS is based on a Fabry Perot interferometer (FPI), which acts as a pressure sensor and includes an embedded fibre Bragg grating (FBG) for temperature measurement. The sensor system is evaluated in a lower urinary tract (LUT) simulator, which simulates the bladder, rectum and detrusor muscle. The system was benchmarked against a commercially available urodynamic system, at the University Hospital Limerick (UHL) Urology Clinic. Both systems demonstrate a high correlation with a relative pressure variation of less than ±2.8cmH2O for abdominal and ±4cmH2O for vesical pressure. The repetitive measurement of the OFPTS system in the LUT simulator against the commercial system demonstrated the high repeatability. Furthermore, the low fabrication cost makes the OFPTS a potentially interesting instrument for urodynamic and other medical applications.
AB - This paper presents an optical fibre pressure and temperature sensor (OFPTS) system, which is adapted for use as a urodynamic pressure measurement system (UPS) for differential pressure measurement with temperature compensation. The OFTPS is based on a Fabry Perot interferometer (FPI), which acts as a pressure sensor and includes an embedded fibre Bragg grating (FBG) for temperature measurement. The sensor system is evaluated in a lower urinary tract (LUT) simulator, which simulates the bladder, rectum and detrusor muscle. The system was benchmarked against a commercially available urodynamic system, at the University Hospital Limerick (UHL) Urology Clinic. Both systems demonstrate a high correlation with a relative pressure variation of less than ±2.8cmH2O for abdominal and ±4cmH2O for vesical pressure. The repetitive measurement of the OFPTS system in the LUT simulator against the commercial system demonstrated the high repeatability. Furthermore, the low fabrication cost makes the OFPTS a potentially interesting instrument for urodynamic and other medical applications.
KW - Fabry perot interferometer
KW - Fibre bragg grating
KW - Lower urinary tract
KW - Urodynamic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976597804&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.2236162
DO - 10.1117/12.2236162
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84976597804
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Sixth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors
A2 - Lewis, Elfed
PB - SPIE
T2 - 6th European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors
Y2 - 31 May 2016 through 3 June 2016
ER -