title: Design and application of a flexible and implantable sensor for detecting uterine musculature contraction.
abstract: It is very important to obtain the parameters of deformation size and contraction frequency of women's uterine musculature in medical research. This paper proposes a type of sensor for measuring these parameters and analyzes its force situation. The flexibility of the sensor makes it easy for doctors to let the sensor pass through woman's narrow cervix and get to her uterine cavity. The experiment shows that the sensitivity of three coils in the sample sensor achieves 22.38 nH/mm(2) both for left and right coils, 22.84 nH/mm(2) for top coil, which can meet the requirements of sensitivity for testing the contraction situation of uterine musculature. Furthermore, an interface designed in the back end system can display the parameters of deformation size and vivid contraction situation of women's uterine musculature in real-time. The sensor has been applied in some medical fields.
authors.affiliation: School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610064, PR China.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Shangchun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Peiyu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D055617:Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014590:Uterine Contraction / Q000502:physiology*