Successful fiber sensor for medical applications

Brett A. Trimble

doi:10.1117/12.144834

21 May 1993 Successful fiber sensor for medical applications

Brett A. Trimble

Proceedings Volume 1886, Fiber Optic Sensors in Medical Diagnostics; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.144834
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

The use of fiber optics in communications and data transmission applications has become wide spread in the last decade. At the same time fiber optic sensors have not gained wide commercial acceptance even though many are known and indeed numerous U.S. and foreign patents have been granted. Camino Laboratories a small medical device concern has successfully marketed a fiber optic pressure monitoring system and become a leader in the area of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring. Some curiosity about the company and its products has been expressed. This presentation will briefly give a background of the company, an explanation of the product, an account of the transfer from concept to volume manufacture and a word on limiting drawbacks of an intensity modulating fiber optic sensor.

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Brett A. Trimble "Successful fiber sensor for medical applications", Proc. SPIE 1886, Fiber Optic Sensors in Medical Diagnostics, (21 May 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.144834

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