TY - CONF A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - Lenke, Philipp A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Wendt, Mario A1 - Witt, Jens T1 - Distributed POF sensors - recent progress and new challenges N2 - The potential of the use of POF as distributed sensors in several application fields has been successfully demonstrated. The distributed POF sensors have moved from the laboratory to the field. The paper presents the recent progress in the development of distributed POF sensors and addresses the main challenges to this innovative technology. T2 - POF 2010 - 19th International conference on plastic optical fibers CY - Yokohama, Japan DA - 2010-10-19 PY - 2010 IS - Sensors-2 SP - 1 EP - 4 AN - OPUS4-22305 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Narbonneau, F. A1 - De Jonckheere, J. A1 - Jeanne, M. A1 - Kinet, D. A1 - Witt, Jens A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - Paquet, B. A1 - Depré, A. A1 - D´Angelo, L.T. A1 - Thiel, T. A1 - Logier, R. ED - Popp, J. T1 - OFSETH: Optical technologies embedded in smart medical textile for continuous monitoring of respiratory motions under magnetic resonance imaging N2 - The potential impact of optical fiber sensors embedded into medical textiles for the continuous monitoring of the patient during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is now proved. We report how two pure optical technologies can successfully sense textile elongation between, 0% and 3%, while maintaining the stretching properties of the textile substrates for a good comfort of the patient. Investigating influence of different patients' morphology as well as textile integration issues to let free all vitals organs for medical staff actions, the OFSETH harness allows a continuous measurement of respiration movements. For example, anaesthesia for MRI examination uses the same drugs as for any surgical procedure. Even if spontaneous respiration can be preserved most of the time, spontaneous respiration is constantly at risk of being impaired by anaesthetic drugs or by upper airway obstruction. Monitoring of the breathing activity is needed to assess adequate ventilation or to detect specific obstruction patterns. Moreover artefacts due to physiological motions induce a blooming effect on the MRI result. The use of synchronisation devices allows reducing these effects. Positioned at certain strategic places according to the investigated organ, the presented sensors could constitute an efficient and adapted solution for respiratory synchronisation of the MRI acquisition. KW - MRI KW - Smart textile KW - Healthcare monitoring KW - Optical sensor KW - FBG KW - Respiratory sensor PY - 2010 SN - 9780819481887 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.854386 VL - 7715 SP - 77151D-1 - 77151D-12 AN - OPUS4-22839 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens A1 - Steffen, Milan A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Investigation of sensing properties of microstructured polymer optical fibres N2 - We investigated sensing properties of single mode poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) microstructured polymer optical fibres (MPOF) with mechanically imprinted long period gratings (LPG). After preparation of the MPOF end-faces the samples were elongated with silica fibres. These samples were used to measure the influence of strain to the LPG wavelength which showed the viscoelastic nature of PMMA. We also measured the influence of temperature and humidity. The results show that MPOF LPGs are well suited for strain sensing. One MPOF LPG was stitched to a textile. Using this textile we measured a simulated respiratory motion. T2 - Photonics Europe 2010: Nanophotonics and photonics materials CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 2010-04-12 KW - Microstructured polymer optical fibre KW - Long period grating KW - Strain sensor KW - Humidity sensor KW - Temperature sensor KW - Respiratory sensor PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-8194-8206-8 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.854656 SN - 0277-786X VL - 7714 IS - 7714-12 SP - 77140F-1 - 77140F-12 AN - OPUS4-21740 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - Lenke, Philipp A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Nöther, Nils A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Wendt, Mario A1 - Witt, Jens A1 - Wosniok, Aleksander T1 - Technology and applications of smart technical textiles based on fibre optic sensors N2 - Technical textiles with embedded fibre optic sensors habe been developed for the purposes of the structural health monitoring in geotechnical and civil engineering as well as for healthcare monitoring in the medical sector. The paper shows selected examples of using such sensor-based smart textiles for different applications. T2 - International conference "Optical sensors" CY - Karlsruhe, Germany DA - 2010-06-21 PY - 2010 IS - STuC2.pdf SP - 1 EP - 2(?) AN - OPUS4-21567 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens T1 - Smart medical textiles with embedded optical fibre sensors for continuous monitoring of respiratory movements during MRI N2 - We report on three respiration sensors based on pure optical technologies developed during the FP6 EU project OFSETH. The developed smart medical textiles can sense elongation up to 3%, while maintaining the stretching properties of the textile substrates for a good comfort of the patient. The sensors, based on silica and polymer fibre, are developed for monitoring of patients during MRI examination. The OFSETH harness allows a continuous measurement of respiration movements while all vitals organs are free for medical staff actions. The sensors were tested in MRI environment and on healthy adults. T2 - 4th European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors (EWOFS) CY - Oporto, Portugal DA - 08.09.2010 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22061 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens T1 - Investigation of sensing properties of long period gratings based on microstructured polymer optical fibres T2 - 4th European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors CY - Oporto, Portugal DA - 2010-10-08 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22054 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens T1 - Investigation of sensing properties of microstructured polymer optical fibres T2 - SPIE Photonics Europe CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 2010-04-15 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22075 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens A1 - Narbonneau, F. A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - De Jonckheere, J. A1 - Jeanne, M. A1 - Kinet, D. A1 - Paquet, B. A1 - Depré, A. A1 - D´Angelo, L.T. A1 - Thiel, T. A1 - Logier, R. ED - Santos, J.L. ED - Culshaw, B. ED - López-Higuera, J.M. ED - MacPherson, W.N. T1 - Smart medical textiles with embedded optical fibre sensors for continuous monitoring of respiratory movements during MRI N2 - We report on three respiration sensors based on pure optical technologies developed during the FP6 EU project OFSETH. The developed smart medical textiles can sense elongation up to 3%, while maintaining the stretching properties of the textile substrates for a good comfort of the patient. The sensors, based on silica and polymer fibre, are developed for monitoring of patients during MRI examination. The OFSETH harness allows a continuous measurement of respiration movements while all vitals organs are free for medical staff actions. The sensors were tested in MRI environment and on healthy adults. T2 - 4th European workshop on optical fibre sensors CY - Porto, Portugal DA - 2010-09-08 KW - Respiratory sensor KW - Fibre optic sensor KW - Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) KW - MRI KW - Smart textile KW - Healthcare monitoring KW - Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-8194-8083-5 SN - 0277-786X N1 - Serientitel: Proceedings of SPIE – Series title: Proceedings of SPIE IS - 7653 SP - Paper 115, 76533B-1 - 76533B-4 PB - SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering CY - Bellingham, Wash. AN - OPUS4-22552 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens A1 - Steffen, Milan A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Krebber, Katerina ED - Santos, J.L. ED - Culshaw, B. ED - López-Higuera, J.M. ED - MacPherson, W.N. T1 - Investigation of sensing properties of long period gratings based on microstructured polymer optical fibres N2 - We investigated the sensing properties of a single mode Poly Methyl Methacrylate (PMMA) Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre (MPOF) with mechanically imprinted Long Period Grating (LPG). We measured the influence of strain to the LPG wavelength which showed the viscoelastic nature of PMMA. We also measured the influence of temperature and humidity to the LPG wavelength. T2 - 4th European workshop on optical fibre sensors CY - Porto, Portugal DA - 2010-09-08 KW - Microstructured polymer optical fibre KW - Long period grating KW - Strain sensor KW - Humidity sensor KW - Temperature sensor PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-8194-8083-5 SN - 0277-786X N1 - Serientitel: Proceedings of SPIE – Series title: Proceedings of SPIE IS - 7653 SP - Paper 112, 76530I-1 - 76530I-4 PB - SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering CY - Bellingham, Wash. AN - OPUS4-22553 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -