Fiber Bragg Gratings for Health Monitoring: from Civil Engineering to Human Body
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 14448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Fiber Bragg gratings; measuring systems development and assessment; wearables for health monitoring; physiological monitoring; joint movements detections
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Interests: optical fiber sensors; biosensors; optical biosensors; physiological monitoring; fiber bragg gratings; optical fibers technology
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Interests: optical fiber sensors for civil engineering, biomedical, and high energy physics applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) are reliable sensing solutions for health monitoring in a variety of fields, from civil engineering to biomedical applications. Although these terms seem to address very different realities, they both regard structures and systems (i.e., constructed environment and human body) that degrade with ageing. In both fields, preventive measures should be applied to identify early signs of damage or disease, launching alarms by the monitoring procedures.
Among numerous sensing technologies, FBGs with their unique properties of miniaturized size, light weight, immunity to electromagnetic interferences, long-term stability, and intrinsic compliance with ATEX and medical devices directives are particularly suitable for monitoring health conditions of civil infrastructures (e.g., structural deterioration, damages, and environmental parameters) and human bodies (e.g., changes in physiological status and body movement).
This Special Issue aims to advance the state of the art in civil engineering and biomedical applications with original research contributions focusing on the development and assessment of new FBG-based sensing solutions for health monitoring. These innovative systems will improve the life expectancy of civil infrastructures and human systems by detecting abnormal health states and damages at an early stage and giving assistance, maintenance, and rehabilitation advice.
Dr. Daniela Lo Presti
Dr. Cátia Leitão
Dr. Michele Arturo Caponero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Structural health monitoring
- Wearables for health monitoring
- Measuring systems for human joint movement detection
- Wearable sensors for physiological monitoring
- Biosensors
- Smart systems for environmental monitoring
- Health data acquisition and analysis
- Sensing technologies for damage detection and assessment
- Measuring systems development and assessment