The goal of this project was to design an ear tissue phantom that would be used to test a non-invasive blood glucose monitor being developed by VivaScan Corporation in West Boylston, MA. The phantom was to have an identical near infrared spectrum to a human earlobe over the range of 1380 +/- 3nm and 1620 nm. The phantom that was constructed consisted of 55% water mixed in a silicone base. It was shown that this mixture of water and silicone adequately modeled the optical properties of the human earlobe over the desired measurement range.

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Creator

• Degon, Robert J.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D259M

Advisor

• Pins, George D
• Peura, Robert A.

Year

• 2004

Sponsor

• VivaScan Corporation

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright