歪ゲージを用いた呼吸及び心拍の無拘束無侵襲自動計測

抄録

In attaining a high-aged and high-welfare society, various demands have been raised on health monitoring. One demand is to develop an unconstrained and noninvasive measurement instrument for respiration and heart rates. This is because they are the most basic information in monitoring the health of high-aged persons or patients in daily lives. Along this objective, several methods have been studied. But, the methods not only aimed to measure only one signal of the respiration and heart rates, but also were not the methods to assure a complete unconstrained measurement. Moreover, the methods needed much cost in making the equipment.
The paper thus proposes a convenient measurement system which makes use of a wire-type respiration pick-up pasted on an air-mat (or water-mat), on which the subjects are laid down, and extracts the respiration and heart rates by applying low-pass and high-pass filters, respectively, to the data. Experiments show that the method offers accurate measurement of respiration and heart rates except for the duration of body movement. The measurement system is thus not only effective, but also easy to use for the cost, the size and the usage of the unconstrained and noninvasive type.