TECHNICAL NOTE: A LOW COST PRESSURE SENSOR FOR LONG-TERM UTERINE CONTRACTION MONITORING

Home Uterine Activity Monitoring (HUAM) has demonstrated to be of great value for preventing preterm labor in recent years. In this research, a low cost monitoring device for non-invasive monitoring of the uterine activity in pregnant women is presented. The new device has been designed based on an inductive Colpitz oscillator and vertical displacement of a ferrite core in a coil. The resulting frequency of the oscillator is proportional to the pressure in the external surface of the abdomen. This frequency is measured by the portable monitor. A low-power static random access memory (SRAM) provides long-term data storage. The proposed sensor for detecting uterine contractions has light weight, high stability and low cost. This sensor is very simple to manufacture and use for long-term ambulatory monitoring of the uterine activity. Furthermore, this sensor can be calibrated using software. Other features of the sensor are, resolution of 0.13 mmHg, repeatability close to 96% and input range from 0 to 95.32 mmHg.

TECHNICAL NOTE: A LOW COST PRESSURE SENSOR FOR LONG-TERM UTERINE CONTRACTION MONITORING Keywords:

PERSSURE MEASUREMENT , UTERINE ACTIVITY MONITORING , AMBULATORY PERSSURE , LONG-TERM UTERINE CONTRACTION MONITORING T , PRETERM LABOR DETECTION , ااندازه گیری فشار , مانیتورینگ فعالیتهای رحمی , فشار شکمی , ثبت طولانی مدت انقباضات , تشخیص زود هنگام زایمان زودرس