Noninvasive, three-dimensional full-field body sensor for surface deformation monitoring of human body in vivo

Zhenning Chen; Xinxing Shao; Xiaoyuan He; Jialin Wu; Xiangyang Xu; Jinlin Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.22.9.095001

12 September 2017 Noninvasive, three-dimensional full-field body sensor for surface deformation monitoring of human body in vivo

Zhenning Chen, Xinxing Shao, Xiaoyuan He, Jialin Wu, Xiangyang Xu, Jinlin Zhang

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 22, Issue 9, 095001 (September 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.22.9.095001

Abstract

Noninvasive, three-dimensional (3-D), full-field surface deformation measurements of the human body are important for biomedical investigations. We proposed a 3-D noninvasive, full-field body sensor based on stereo digital image correlation (stereo-DIC) for surface deformation monitoring of the human body in vivo. First, by applying an improved water-transfer printing (WTP) technique to transfer optimized speckle patterns onto the skin, the body sensor was conveniently and harmlessly fabricated directly onto the human body. Then, stereo-DIC was used to achieve 3-D noncontact and noninvasive surface deformation measurements. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed body sensor were verified and discussed by considering different complexions. Moreover, the fabrication of speckle patterns on human skin, which has always been considered a challenging problem, was shown to be feasible, effective, and harmless as a result of the improved WTP technique. An application of the proposed stereo-DIC-based body sensor was demonstrated by measuring the pulse wave velocity of human carotid artery.

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Zhenning Chen, Xinxing Shao, Xiaoyuan He, Jialin Wu, Xiangyang Xu, and Jinlin Zhang "Noninvasive, three-dimensional full-field body sensor for surface deformation monitoring of human body in vivo," Journal of Biomedical Optics 22(9), 095001 (12 September 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.22.9.095001

Received: 3 May 2017; Accepted: 21 August 2017; Published: 12 September 2017

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