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BY 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter October 9, 2021

Optimal Sensor Location in a Smart-Shirt to Measure Accurate Tidal Volumes During Abdominal and Thoracic Respiration

  • Bernhard Laufer , Paul D. Docherty , Rua Murray , Nour Aldeen Jalal , Fabian Hoeflinger , Leonhard Reindl and Knut Moeller

Abstract

The determination of respiratory parameters via respiration induced surface movements of the upper body has been the subject of research for many years. The displacements of 102 motion capture markers were evaluated in this study in terms of their information content with respect to the tidal volume recorded in parallel using a spirometer. Independent of the breathing types (spontaneous breathing, abdominal breathing, or chest breathing), the number and the location of sensors in a smart shirt to obtain tidal volume information was determined. Only 9 of 102 sensors were sufficient to obtain breathing volume information.

Published Online: 2021-10-09
Published in Print: 2021-10-01

© 2021 The Author(s), published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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