I-Corps: Thin Film Cardiac Sensor

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括提供一种可用于各种应用的不显眼的血容量脉搏传感器。通过家庭健康监测，所提出的传感产品可以潜在地改善最近出院的心脏病患者的健康结果。这也将减少释放后心力衰竭的机会，这是再次入院的主要原因之一。虽然应用程序可以为健康社区提供显着的好处，但拟议的产品也可以用于其他服务。该设备还可以作为一种不引人注目的手段来收集个人健康、运动训练等信息。该设备在人机系统研究中也有潜在用途。这个I-Corps项目基于灵活的薄膜心率传感阵列。该器件使用量子点，量子点已被证明是光学微机电系统（MEMS）器件的有效功能元件。所提出的技术将在MEMS器件中使用量子点作为血量脉冲光学测量的新方法。所选择的材料允许MEMS器件成为薄的柔性膜，这将使其能够容易地安装在平坦的轮廓表面上，例如电话，计算机鼠标或衣服。这种对传感技术的贡献将允许在用户与这些物品发生物理接触时测量血量脉搏。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project includes providing an unobtrusive blood volume pulse sensor that can be used for a variety of applications. Through home health monitoring, the proposed sensing product can be potentially improve health outcomes of recently discharged cardiac patients. This will also reduce chances of heart failure after release, which is one of the leading causes for hospital readmission. While application can provide significant benefits to the health community, the proposed product can be used for other services as well. The device can also serve as an unobtrusive means to collect information for personal health, athletic training, etc. The device can also be potentially useful in human-machine systems studies.This I-Corps project is based on a flexible, thin film heart rate sensing array. The device uses quantum dots, which have proven to be an effective functional element for optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. The proposed technology will use quantum dots in a MEMS device as a new approach to optical measurement of Blood Volume Pulse. The materials chosen allows the MEMS device to be a thin, flexible film, which will allow it to be easily installed on flat, contoured surfaces such as a phone, computer mouse, or clothing. This contribution to sensing technology will allow Blood Volume Pulse to be measured when users come into physical contact with these items.