Fiber bragg gratings for medical applications and future challenges: A review

Daniela Lo Presti; Carlo Massaroni; Catia Sofia Jorge Leitao; Maria De Fatima Domingues; Marzhan Sypabekova; David Barrera; Ignazio Floris; Luca Massari; Calogero Maria Oddo; Salvador Sales; Iulian Ioan Iordachita; Daniele Tosi; Emiliano Schena

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019138

Fiber bragg gratings for medical applications and future challenges: A review

Daniela Lo Presti, Carlo Massaroni, Catia Sofia Jorge Leitao, Maria De Fatima Domingues, Marzhan Sypabekova, David Barrera, Ignazio Floris, Luca Massari, Calogero Maria Oddo, Salvador Sales, Iulian Ioan Iordachita, Daniele Tosi, Emiliano Schena

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	9174987
Pages (from-to)	156863-156888
Number of pages	26
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019138
Publication status	Published - 2020

Funding

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.

Keywords

Biomechanics
biosensing
fiber Bragg grating sensors
minimally invasive surgery
physiological monitoring

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science
General Materials Science
General Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Lo Presti, D., Massaroni, C., Jorge Leitao, C. S., De Fatima Domingues, M., Sypabekova, M., Barrera, D., Floris, I., Massari, L., Oddo, C. M., Sales, S., Iordachita, I. I., Tosi, D., & Schena, E. (2020). Fiber bragg gratings for medical applications and future challenges: A review. IEEE Access, 8, 156863-156888. Article 9174987. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3019138

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