• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.148-151
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 광섬유를 이용하여 반사형과 투과형의 MR-Compatible Photoplethysmograph (PPG) 측정 시스템을 개발하고, 그 성능을 비교하고자 한다. 반사형 타입은 광섬유 다발의 끝단을 피부에 접촉 시킨 후 반사현상을 이용하여 PPG 신호를 측정하고, 투과형 타입은 광섬유 사이에 피부를 접촉시킨 후 투과현상을 이용하여 PPG 신호를 계측한다. PPG 측정 시스템은 광 신호를 검출하는 센서 부분, 근적외선 광 신호를 송수신하는 광케이블 부분, 신호 증폭 부분, 잡음 제거를 위한 필터부분으로 구성되어 있다. 반사형 및 투과형 PPG 신호의 SNR을 비교한 결과 반사형은 23.5dB이고 투과형은 22.2dB로 차이가 거의 없었다. 그러므로 실험 환경이나 목적에 따라 두 가지 타입 중 효율성이 좀 더 높은 것을 선택하여 사용할 수 있을 것이다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.161-167
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• 2017

This paper presents an effective PPG measurement device in a wrist watch for smart healthcare. PPG can be acquired by measuring absorption of light and PPG measurement device is classified as transmission and reflection type. Reflection type is easy to implement but vulnerable to motion artifact. Moreover, reflection type must use 2 hands at once if the device is implemeted in a wrist watch. This paper describes the implementation of robust transmission type PPG measurement device by using previous developed reflection type device. PPG sensor is clip type and can be separated from the device so that the influence of motion artifact can be reduced. The proposed device can transmit the measured signal in real-time and is useful for smart healthcare. For evaluation of the proposed device, PPG signals are compared with reflection type in the same condition. The results show that the proposed device has 20% improvement in performance.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.306-311
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• 2019

This paper presents the temperature dependence of transmission-type and reflection-type PPG measurement devices that have been developed in the previous research. PPG signal can be distorted by external temperature such as skin temperature so that many of research was focused on the skin temperature effect. However, this paper focuses on the temperature of the device itself and we studied on the effect of device internal temperature. Experimental results showed that the temperature was increased like an irrational function graph and the transmission-type was not affected by the internal temperature but the reflection-type was affected by the internal temperature.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.482-483
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• 2008

본 연구는 수면 중 무구속적 방식으로 에어 베개에 부착한 PPG 센서에서 호흡 및 심박을 검출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 반사형 PPG 센서는 광원이 피부로 투과되어 혈관의 이완 및 수축 정도를 측정할 수 있다. 반사형 PPG 센서로부터 하드웨어 모듈을 통과한 생체 신호는 AD 변환되어 PC로 전송된다 PPG에서 검출된 분당 심박 수는 전송된 신호의 밸리점간의 시간 간격을 이용하여 추출하며 호흡 신호는 밸리점의 크기를 연결하여 추출하였다. 검출된 호흡 신호와 기준 호흡 신호간의 상관성을 확인하기 위해 기준신호로 호흡과 심박을 동시에 측정하여 그 결과를 분석하였다. PPG 센서로부터 획득한 심박 및 호흡 신호는 기준신호들과 높은 상관성을 가지며 호흡시 발생하는 움직임과 호흡 속도에 영향을 받는다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.160-166
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• 2012

We performed the development and performance evaluation of reflective type heart rate measurement system for PAPS. We used chip LED and chip photo TR. for low power driving. The measured PPG signal is preprocessed using high pass filter and low pass filter, and the preprocessed signal is displayed by LabVIEW. Also LabVIEW include the algorithm that extract effective signal and calculate the heart rate. We made sure that it will be able to apply to measurement equipment with high accuracy and repetition from exercising subject using this system and algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1411-1412
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 맥박 측정에서 생기는 잡음들 중 많은 오류를 생기게 하는 동잡음 개선을 위하여 회로를 제안하고 설계하였다. 기존의 맥박추정 장비에서 가변저항, 광원 스위칭, 디지털 필터를 사용함으로써 정확도 향상을 위한 연구를 하였다. 손가락에서 광전용적맥파를 측정시 측정부의 광원을 2개를 사용하고, 이를 스위칭을 통해 파형을 측정을 하였다. 실험에서 PPG의 측정은 반사형 방식을 사용하고 이를 광원스위칭을 통해 신호를 받아들였다. 이를 저주파통과필터와 고주파통과필터를 사용하여 0.5~5Hz대역을 필터링 함으로써 PPG이외의 잡음을 제거하고 신호를 검출하였다. 검출된 파형을 지수가중이중필터로 필터링을 함으로써 정확성을 높였다. 이를 통하여 광원스위칭을 통한 PPG의 출력과 발광다이오드 한 개를 사용한 출력을 비교 분석을 보여줄 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.225-226
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 손목과 손가락에서의 광전용적맥파(photoplethysmography:PPG)를 이용한 맥파 동시 측정에 있어서 두 신호의 peak간의 시간차와 혈압과의 관계를 비교하였다. 이를 통하여 연속적인 혈압측정방법에 대해 측정 가능성을 발견하였다. 본 논문에서는 적외선을 이용한 반사형 PPG 측정 시스템을 사용하였으며 손목과 손가락에서 동시에 측정한 신호를 측정된 혈압과 비교하였다. 이를 통하여 혈압에 따라 손목과 손가락의 PPG신호 peak간의 시간차에 일정한 변화가 있음을 발견하였고 이를 통하여 손목과 손가락사이의 PPG 신호만으로 연속혈압측정이 가능하다는 결론을 얻었다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.406-412
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• 2023

In this paper, we studied the effect of noise caused by ambient light on a reflective PPG measurement device using infrared light. Noise caused by ambient light was examined by dividing it into general situations and special situations. In the general situation, noise due to changes in time and ambient light sources was randomly observed, and in the special situation, a halogen lamp was used to observe the effect of noise variations. In the experiment, PPG signals were measured and data acquired in real-time depending on each situation, and the measured data was analyzed in the time domain and frequency domain. First, through a general situation experiments, it was visually observed that noise increases with the brightness of ambient light, and through frequency analysis, it was observed that the noise sources were white noise, power line noise, and internal noise of the circuit. Futhermore, using a halogen lamp, we experimented with the change in noise depending on the change in distance from the ambient light and calculated the SNR. As a result of the experiment, an SNR of 3.2 dB was shown at a distance of 50 cm with an irradiance of 278.3 W/m². It was observed that normal measurement was difficult at SNRs below that, and an irradiance of 27.7 W/m² was obtained. It showed a value of 18.2 dB at a distance of 2 m, and it was observed that normal PPG measurement was possible through a filter at values above that.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.146-153
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• 2009

One of the most important issues in the wearable healthcare sensors is to minimize the motion artifacts in the vital signals for continuous monitoring. This paper presents a reflected type photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor for monitoring heart rates at the artery of the wrist. Active noise cancellation algorithm was applied to compensate the distorted signals by motions with Least Mean Square (LMS) adaptive filter algorithms, using acceleration signals from a MEMS accelerometer. Experiments with a watch type PPG sensor were performed to validate the proposed algorithm during typical daily motions such as walking and running. The developed sensor is suitable for ubiquitous healthcare system and monitoring vital arterial signals during surgery.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.619-625
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• 2007

As low power, low cost wireless communication technology like Bluetooth, Zigbee, RFID has been put to practical use together with the wellbeing trend, the concern about ubiquitous health care has been greatly increased and u-Health is becoming one of the most important application in the sensor network field. Especially, development of the medical services to be able to cope with a state of emergency for solitary senior citizens and the aged in silver town is very meaningful itself and their needs are also expected to continuously increase with a rapid increase in an aging population. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of extracting accurate heart rate variability (HRV) measurements from photoelectric plethysmography(PPG) signals gathered by a ring type pulse oximeter sensor attached to the finger. For this, we made 2 types of ring sensor, that is reflective and pervious type, and developed the remote monitoring system which is able to collect HR data from ring sensor, analyze and cope with a state of emergency.