TY - JOUR A1 - Delbeck, S. A1 - Vahlsing, Thorsten A1 - Leonhardt, S. A1 - Steiner, G. A1 - Heise, H.M. T1 - Non-invasive monitoring of blood glucose using optical methods for skin spectroscopy - opportunities and recent advances N2 - Diabetes mellitus is a widespread disease with greatly rising patient numbers expected in the future, not only for industrialized countries but also for regions in the developing world. There is a need for efficient therapy, which can be via self-monitoring of blood glucose levels to provide tight glycemic control for reducing the risks of severe health complications. Advancements in diabetes technology can nowadays offer different sensor approaches, even for continuous blood glucose monitoring. Non-invasive blood glucose assays have been promised for many years and various vibrational spectroscopy-based methods of the skin are candidates for achieving this goal. Due to the small spectral signatures of the glucose hidden among a largely variable background, the largest signal-to-noise ratios and multivariate calibration are essential to provide the method applicability for self-monitoring of blood glucose. Besides multiparameter approaches, recently presented devices based on photoplethysmography with wavelengths in the visible and near-infrared range are evaluated for their potential of providing reliable blood glucose concentration predictions. KW - Non-invasive glucose sensing KW - Vibrational spectroscopy KW - Photoplethysmography KW - Multivariate calibration KW - Validation studies PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-018-1395-x SN - 1618-2650 SN - 1618-2642 VL - 411 IS - 1 SP - 63 EP - 77 PB - Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature AN - OPUS4-46714 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -