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Contactless health-care sensing

A system for monitoring a person’s vital signs — such as their blood pressure and heart rate — offers many advantages over currently used technologies, including enhanced sensing capabilities, comfort and convenience.
  1. Leena Ukkonen

    1. Leena Ukkonen is in the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, 33720 Tampere, Finland.

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  2. Lauri Sydänheimo

    1. Lauri Sydänheimo is in the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, 33720 Tampere, Finland.

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Systems that can track a person’s vital signs are of paramount importance for medicine and health care. Vital signs include heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate and breathing rate. Tracking systems that are both wearable and wireless are desirable because they are minimally intrusive1,2 and could allow institutionalized care to be replaced with care at home for the elderly3. Writing in Nature Electronics, Hui and Kan4 report such a system, which could find applications in both home care and clinical facilities.

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Nature 551, 572-573 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-07434-y

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