Medical Technology Laboratory
The work of the Medical Technology Laboratory is now carried out within the Biomedical Engineering Research Group.
The Medical Technology Laboratory hosts research projects that aimed to promote early diagnosis and improve monitoring of a range of medical conditions.
The main focus of the laboratory is to tackle the problem of poorly measured respiratory rate by development of low cost and scalable devices for measurement of this vital sign. The importance of this is that the breathing rate commonly changes early when a patient’s condition deteriorates.
Previous projects have included early detection and confirmation of the onset of labour in childbirth, cuffless measurement of blood pressure and the assessment of coronary artery disease using MRI scan images, which was undertaken by an undergraduate student who won a Royal Society of Biology prize for best project.
The laboratory promotes and hosts projects that arise from the ideas of medical and engineering undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Contact Stephen Hughes at [email protected] for more information.
German Jordanian University, Marhaba, Jordan – use of inkjet-printed strain gauges for respiratory monitoring
- Use of microelectromechanical devices
- Low cost respiratory strain gauges
- Hughes, S., Liu, H. and Zheng, D., 2020. Influences of Sensor Placement Site and Subject Posture on Measurement of Respiratory Frequency Using Triaxial Accelerometers. Frontiers in Physiology. 11:823.
- Liu, H., Chen, F., Hartmann, V., Khalid, S.G., Hughes, S. and Zheng, D., 2020. Comparison of different modulations of photoplethysmography in extracting respiratory rate: from a physiological perspective. Physiological Measurement.
- Hartmann, V., Liu, H., Chen, F., Hong, W., Hughes, S. and Zheng, D., 2019. Towards Accurate Extraction of Respiratory Frequency from the Photoplethysmogram: Effect of Measurement Site. Frontiers in Physiology. 10, p. 732.
- Hartmann, V., Liu, H., Chen, F., Qiu, Q., Hughes, S. and Zheng, D., 2019. Quantitative comparison of photoplethysmographic waveform characteristics: effect of measurement site. Frontiers in Physiology. 10, p. 198.