TY - JOUR
T1 - Fiber bragg gratings for medical applications and future challenges
T2 - A review
AU - Lo Presti, Daniela
AU - Massaroni, Carlo
AU - Jorge Leitao, Catia Sofia
AU - De Fatima Domingues, Maria
AU - Sypabekova, Marzhan
AU - Barrera, David
AU - Floris, Ignazio
AU - Massari, Luca
AU - Oddo, Calogero Maria
AU - Sales, Salvador
AU - Iordachita, Iulian Ioan
AU - Tosi, Daniele
AU - Schena, Emiliano
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by INAIL (the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accident at Work), through the BRIC (Bando ricerche in collaborazione) 2018 SENSE-RISC (Sviluppo di abiti intelligENti Sensorizzati per prevenzione e mitigazione di Rischi per la SiCurezza dei lavoratori) Project under Grant ID10/2018, in part by the UCBM (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) under the University Strategic HOPE (HOspital to the PatiEnt) Project, in part by the EU Framework Program H2020-FETPROACT-2018-01 NeuHeart Project under Grant GA 824071, by FCT/MEC (Fundação para a Ciência e Técnologia) under the Projects UIDB/50008/2020 - UIDP/50008/2020, and by REACT (Development of optical fiber solutions for Rehabilitation and e-Health applications) FCT-IT-LA scientific action.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility, immunity to electromagnetic interferences, high sensitivity and multiplexing capability. FBGs have been employed in the development of surgical tools, assistive devices, wearables, and biosensors, showing great potentialities for medical uses. This paper reviews the FBG-based measuring systems, their principle of work, and their applications in medicine and healthcare. Particular attention is given to sensing solutions for biomechanics, minimally invasive surgery, physiological monitoring, and medical biosensing. Strengths, weaknesses, open challenges, and future trends are also discussed to highlight how FBGs can meet the demands of next-generation medical devices and healthcare system.
AB - In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility, immunity to electromagnetic interferences, high sensitivity and multiplexing capability. FBGs have been employed in the development of surgical tools, assistive devices, wearables, and biosensors, showing great potentialities for medical uses. This paper reviews the FBG-based measuring systems, their principle of work, and their applications in medicine and healthcare. Particular attention is given to sensing solutions for biomechanics, minimally invasive surgery, physiological monitoring, and medical biosensing. Strengths, weaknesses, open challenges, and future trends are also discussed to highlight how FBGs can meet the demands of next-generation medical devices and healthcare system.
KW - Biomechanics
KW - biosensing
KW - fiber Bragg grating sensors
KW - minimally invasive surgery
KW - physiological monitoring
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019138
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019138
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091254854
VL - 8
SP - 156863
EP - 156888
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
M1 - 9174987
ER -