TY - GEN
T1 - Digital chest expansion measurement & its biomedical application
AU - Dey, Richeek
AU - Thakur, Urjit
AU - Sunny, Linsun
AU - D'Almeida, Lawrence
AU - Chakravarty, Kalyana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/1/25
Y1 - 2016/1/25
N2 - This paper describes the construction of a device to measure chest expansion. Chest expansion is an important diagnostic criterion. The current methods used are mechanical in nature and lack precision. The objective was to make a device which can measure the chest expansion digitally. Ultrasound sensors have been known to be useful in the measurement of distance. This concept was extended to measuring chest expansion. The subject is made to stand in front of the device and the chest expansion is computed by measuring the distance by means of the ultrasound waves. The device contains an ultrasound transceiver connected to a microcontroller and the results are displayed on a LCD display. The entire unit runs off a 9-volt battery. It is compact and mobile. The device was tested on 30 healthy people with favorable results.
AB - This paper describes the construction of a device to measure chest expansion. Chest expansion is an important diagnostic criterion. The current methods used are mechanical in nature and lack precision. The objective was to make a device which can measure the chest expansion digitally. Ultrasound sensors have been known to be useful in the measurement of distance. This concept was extended to measuring chest expansion. The subject is made to stand in front of the device and the chest expansion is computed by measuring the distance by means of the ultrasound waves. The device contains an ultrasound transceiver connected to a microcontroller and the results are displayed on a LCD display. The entire unit runs off a 9-volt battery. It is compact and mobile. The device was tested on 30 healthy people with favorable results.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84978036260
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84978036260#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/EHB.2015.7391565
DO - 10.1109/EHB.2015.7391565
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978036260
T3 - 2015 E-Health and Bioengineering Conference, EHB 2015
BT - 2015 E-Health and Bioengineering Conference, EHB 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering, EHB 2015
Y2 - 19 November 2015 through 21 November 2015
ER -