title: Development of automatic operated blood sampling system for portable type Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose device.
abstract: In this study, a new portable type Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose (SMBG) device, which is driven automatically from the blood sampling to the blood glucose measurement, is developed to establish the point-of-care technology in the ubiquitous medical care. It aims to overcome human errors due to the complicated manual operation of commercial SMBG devices. In this study, I mainly discuss the development of automatic operated blood sampling system. This system consists of Three Dimensional Blood Bessel Search (3D BVS) unit employing Near-Infrared Light (NIR) imaging and the stereo method, and automatic blood collection and transportation system. A prototype of the blood sampling system was examined its performance and confirmed the high accuracy in 1) blood vessel search, 2) punctuation and blood suction, and 3) transportation.
authors.affiliation: Doshisha University, Dept. of Biomedical Engng., 1-3 Miyakodani Tatara, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan. enakamac@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nakamachi
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation / Q000295:instrumentation; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*