Project on Pulse Oximeter

For patients at risk of respiratory failure, it is important to monitor the blood oxygen saturation of such individuals to ensure proper perfusion of blood in their system. Preferably this information should be received on a continuous basis. Both of these objectives can be reached via the non−invasive method of pulse oximetry. This is currently used in hospital/clinical settings, however uses wires which in effect bound an individual to an area. The purpose is to create a clinical diagnostic system which takes a few physiologically relevant signals and transmits them wirelessly to a base station.  This project specifically deals with the design of a wireless pulse oximeter for this system. By using the principle of differential light absorption and the assumption that the transmission of light through the arterial bed is influenced only by the relative concentrations of oxygenated and reduced hemoglobin and their  absorption coefficients at the two wavelengths, light intensity will decrease logarithmically according to Beer−Lambert’s law.The theory behind our device, hardware design and the experimental results of the system are presented.

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