1. Photonic Remote and Continuous
Biomedical Diagnostics
Zeev Zalevsky1,2
1Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2SAOT, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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2. Main collaborators:
Yevgeny Beiderman1
Javier Garcia2
Vicente Mico2
Israel Margelith1
Asaf Shahmoon1
Alexander Douplik3
Dan Cojoc4
1Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2Departamento de Óptica, Universitat de València, Spain
3Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
4Trieste, Italy
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3. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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4. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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5. Opto-Phone: Hearing with Light
Imaging
module
Camera
Sensor
Invisible L
aser Laser
projection
Any visible distance
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6. Opto-Phone: Hearing with Light
Hearing with Light: Features
•The ultimate voice recognition system compatible to
“hear” human speech from any point of view (even from
behind).
•There is no restriction on the position of the system in
regards to the position of the sound source.
•Capable of hearing heart beats and knowing physical
conditions without physical contact for measuring.
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7. Opto-Phone: Hearing with Light
Features- cont.
•Works clearly in noisy surroundings and even through
vacuum.
•Allows separation between plurality of speakers and sounds
sources.
•Works through glass window.
•Simple and robust system (does not include interferometer
in the detection phase).
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8. Let’s listen…from 80m
Cell phone Back part of neck
Counting…1,2,3,4,5,6
Counting…5,6,7
X - movement
1
0.5
0
-0.5
Face (profile)
-1
120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320
Heart beat pulse
Counting…5,6
taken from a throat
All recordings were done in a very noisy constriction site at distance of more
than 80m.
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9. Results: Detection of
occluded objects I
(a). (b). (c).
(a). Camouflaged object. (b). Camouflage without the object. (c). The object (upper left part) and the low
resolution camouflaged scenery.
Spectrogram Spectrogram Spectrogram
0 0 0
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50 50 50
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150 150 150
Frequency [Hz]
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Frequency [Hz]
Frequency [Hz]
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500 500 500
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
(d). Time [sec] (e). Time [sec] (f). Time [sec]
(d). The spectrogram of the camouflaged object with its engine turned on. (e). The spectrogram
of the object with its engine turned on and without the camouflage. (f). The spectrogram of the
camouflaged object without turning on its engine.
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10. Results: Detection of
occluded objects II
Y - pos
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(b).
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Sample
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(a). The scenario of the experiment. (b). Experimental results: upper recording is of the
Sample
camouflaged subject. Lower recording is the same subject without the camouflage.
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11. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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12. Technological Description
•Unique technological platform allows remote and
continuous wearable monitoring of many
biomedical parameters simultaneously.
•It is based upon inspection of secondary speckle
pattern back reflected from skin near main blood
artery, after properly adjusting the imaging optics.
•The biomedical monitoring capabilities include:
heart beats, breathing, blood pulse pressure,
glucose concentration, alcohol level, IOP, blood
coagulation (INR), oximetry, ICP etc.
•Unique patented IP and know how.
•Part of the applications have already been
commercialized.
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13. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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14. Measuring of breathing from rat’s
cornea reflections
(Abs) Spectrum
2
1.8
Detected rat’s breathing beating at
X: -1.872
1.6 Y: 1.808
Noise level
frequency around 1.87Hz.
1.4
Amplitude
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
-15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15
Reflected speckle pattern.
Frequency [Hz] 14

15. Measuring of heart beating from
human’s cornea reflections
(Abs) Spectrum (Abs) Spectrum (Abs) Spectrum
35 25 12
X: 1.502 X: 3.078
X: 1.522 Y: 11.68
30 Y: 33.65
Y: 19.96
10
20
25
8
Amplitude
Amplitude
Amplitude
15
20 Noise level
6
15 Noise level 10
4
10
5
2
5
0 0 0
-20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20
Frequency [Hz] Frequency [Hz] Frequency [Hz]
Subject #1 (measurement taken while Subject #2 (measurement taken while Reference noise level (detected
subject was holding his breath) subject was holding his breath) reflection from a wall)
Detected heart beating of humans at frequency of around 1.5Hz.
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20
30
40
50
Reflected speckles pattern.
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16. Measuring breathing of pigs
The swine's
location
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Breath Breath measured
20 The non-visible
Breaths per minute
40 m
laser system
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10
5
Laser beam
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Experiment
Statistical breathing experiment
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17. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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18. Remote heart beats monitoring
The implemented optical configuration for
remote measuring of heart beats and blood
pulse pressure from subject’s hand
Laser
Camera
50 cm
Hand
3
2
Temporal plot of the outcome from the
2.5
0
system used in the clinical trials for two
2
different participants.
Amplitude [pix]
Amplitude [pix]
1.5 -2
1 -4
0.5
-6
0
-8
-0.5
-10
-1
0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4
Time [sec] Time [sec]
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19. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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20. Glucose level monitoring
Temporal plot of the outcome from the system used in the clinical tests with the graphical description of the observed
parameters.
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21. Glucose level monitoring
40 210
35 190
Amplitude [samp];
Glucose[ml/dl/10]
Glucose [mg/dl]
30 170
25 150
20 Glucose /10 130
,
15 Param.6 110
10 90
5 70
0 50
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Time [min] time [minutes]
Stability of the system: constant glucose level in blood (denoted Data of subject #1: Glucose level in blood and amplitude
by blue line with triangles) and the estimated parameter 6 of positive peak (parameter #1). Glucose level is denoted
(denoted by magenta line with rectangles). Glucose level is by blue line with triangles and the optically measured
given in units of 0.1[ml/dl] (representing a constant level of 100 parameter is denoted by magenta line with rectangles.
[ml/dl), while the estimated optical values are given in pixels.
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22. Glucose level monitoring
210 210
190 190
Glucose [mg/dL]
Glucose [mg/dl]
170 170
150 150
130 130
,
110 110
90 90
70 70
50 50
0 10 20 30 40 0 5 10 15 20 25
time [minutes] time [minutes]
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Data of subject #3: Glucose level in blood and amplitude of positive peak Data of subject #1: Glucose level in blood and
(parameter #1). Glucose level is denoted by blue line with triangles and the amplitude of positive peak (parameter #1). Glucose
optically measured parameter is denoted by magenta line with rectangles. level is denoted by blue line with triangles and the
optically measured parameter is denoted by magenta
190 line with rectangles.
170
Glucose [mg/dl]
150
130
110
90 Data of subject #4: Glucose level in blood and amplitude of
70 positive peak (parameter #1). Glucose level is denoted by blue
50 line with triangles and the optically measured parameter is
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 denoted by magenta line with rectangles.
time [minutes]
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23. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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24. Blood pulse pressure measurement
M , Corr(M , ) = 0.99507
140
Systolic
Diastolic
 = S-D
120
Amplitude [mmHg]
100
80
60
40
20
-50 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Time [sec]
An example of the obtained remote blood pulse pressure measurement using the proposed device for one subject
participating in the clinical test group. The reference pulse pressure is shown by the green curve (denoted as ) was
obtained using manual sleeve based reference measurement device. The blue curve (denoted as M) is the measurement
obtained using the proposed optical technique. The time duration of the measurement was 350sec. The sampling of the
camera was performed at 300Hz. One may see that strong correlation exists between the green (reference) curve and the
blue curve obtained by the developed approach.
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25. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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26. Remote IOP monitoring
The proposed experimental configuration for
remote continuous monitoring of the IOP.
Changing IOP via applying mechanical pressure
on the sclera.
Changing IOP via modifying the height of an
infusion bug.
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27. Remote IOP monitoring
Data amp: 8.017 10.7025 11.2649 11.6035 9.3484 7.2619 7.2177 6.4588
40
Data amplitude: 9
30
8.02 10.7 11.27 11.6 9.35 7.26 7.22 6.46 8
20 7 6.872 With infusion bag
a mp/pressure (mmHg)
9 6 With
1501 applied pressure
Amplitude [pix]
10
Amplitude
8
7 6.8725
6
0 4
Amplitude
5 3.5404
4 3 3.5404 2.9932
-10 3 2.9932
6
Data amp: 7.3465
2 2 2.145 1.76402
2.145 1.76402
1
-20
4
0 1
Amplitude [pix]
2
0
0 0
20 40 60 80
-30 Pressure (mm/Hg)
-2
0 20 40 60 80
-40
-4
Pressure (mm/Hg)
-6
0 500 1000 1500
Sample
-50
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
Sample Experimentally extracted readout compared to
absolute reference IOP measurement obtained
Experimentally extracted readout with Goldmann tonometer.
obtained when changing the height of
the infusion bag every 500 samples.
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28. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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29. Detection of malaria
An example of one out of the 20 relevant inspected parameters. Left: Healthy RBC. Right: Infected RBC.
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30. Detection of malaria
Separation between infected and
healthy cells. Plotting the length of
the vectors versus cells’ index.
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31. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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32. Remote alcohol level monitoring
Camera (a). (b).
Green laser
(a). The side (left) and top (right) view of the experimental setup. (b). Typical temporal beating signals extracted
using the proposed remote optical sensing device, before (left) and after (right) the effect of alcohol obtained
over the same subject.
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33. Remote alcohol level monitoring
Definition of the Ratio wid (through the ratio between the main STD of background noises: long duration test with
and the secondary negative peak’s temporal positions), Main error bars representing the std values of the
sec peak ratio (through the ratio between the main negative measured data.
peak amplitude and the secondary positive peak’s amplitude),
and Standard deviation of background noise (STD) parameters.
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34. Remote alcohol level monitoring
(a). (b). Summary:
Positive pulse size [msec]
Pulse size [msec]
(a). Pulse size, (b). Positive pulse
size, (c). Peakdis, (d). Ratio_wid,
(e). Main_sec_peak ratio, (f). Std
of background noises.
Time [min] Time [min]
(c). (d).
Peakdis [msec]
Ratio wid
Time [min] Time [min]
(e). (f).
Main sec peak ratio
Std [msec]
Time [min] Time [min]
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35. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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36. Oximetry and coagulation of blood
Oxygen INR
3.5 3
2.8
3
2.6
2.4
Amplitude [pix]
Normilized INR
2.5
2.2
2 2
1.8
1.5
1.6
1.4
1
1.2
0.5 1
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
Test # Exp #
Oximetry experiment Blood coagulation experiment
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37. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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38. Multi-Functional Probe
The edge of the fabricated micro
probe having approximately 5,000
cores while each one of them is
being used as light transmitting
channel (each core is a single
pixel in the formed image). In this
image each core transmits red
channel of light at wavelength of
632nm.
50m
Laser (632nm) Beam Expander Mirror Laser Controller Camera
Input plane Output plane
Multi core probe F Image
Object
Sample
Location
U1 U2 V
Beam Splitter
Probe Location
1 1 1
  Objective Lens
U1  U 2 V F
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39. Multi-Functional Probe- experiments
Experimental results of images transmitted backwards by the proposed micro probe. The scanned objects are as follows;
From left to right: black vertical lines, black rectangles, horizontal black lines, black lines and black rectangle appearing
in the left side of the backwards transmitted image.
5m
2m
Experimental results of images with Fe beads having diameter of 1m imaged
through an agar solution.
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40. Phantom fabrication
(a) (b) (c)
(a) Fabricated phantom. (b) shows a 3D view sketch of the phantom having two drilled channels with diameter of
400µm each. One longitudinal channel (along the x axis) while another angled channel was made making both
channel crossed inside the phantom. The openings indicated as “in” and “out” enable the connection of microfluidic
system. (c) shows a cross-sectional schematic view of the fabricated phantom.
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41. Experimental results with phantom
Experimental results of Fe micro
particles imaged inside a drilled
phantom
Imaging of a manipulated micro wire (indicated by
the solid arrows) inside an hemoglobin mixture.
(a) Top view microscope image of the resolution target. (b) imaging
Imaging of fluorescence protein. HEK 293 cells transfected of the resolution target using the microendoscope device. Inset.
with pEGFP-N3. Left: Top view microscope image. Right: Zoom image of the encompass area. Scales bar of (a) and (b) are 10
Imaging using the microendoscope device. Scales bar of µm and 20 µm, respectively.
left and right image are 50 and 20 µm, respectively.
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42. Experimental results with phantom
Monitoring Hemoglobin Concentration
1
0,9
0,8
Normalized mean value
0,7
0,6
0,5
0,4
0,3
0,2
0,1
0
Reference Saline 16.25 [gr/L] 32.5 [gr/L] 65 [gr/L] 130 [gr/L]
Type of solution
Monitoring different hemoglobin concentrations inside the phantom.
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43. In-vivo experimental results
Imaging along a blood vein
of a chicken wing. The solid
arrows indicate the blood
vein, while the dashed arrows
as well as the labeling letter
indicate the cascading point
between the images for
constructing an image with a
larger field of view
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44. In-vivo experimental results
Imaging of blood vessel inside the rat’s brain using the micro endoscope
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45. In-vivo experimental results
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46. Outline
•“Hearing” with light – Introduction
•Biomedical monitoring:
•Introduction
•Measuring of breathing
•Heart beats monitoring
•Glucose level monitoring
•Blood pulse pressure monitoring
•IOP monitoring
•Malaria detection
•Alcohol detection
•Oximetry and coagulation of blood
•Micro endoscope
•Conclusions
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47. Conclusions:
• A new technology for accurate remote and continuous sensing of
movements was developed.
• The technique is based upon processing of back reflected secondary
speckles statistics.
• We demonstrated remote estimation of breathing, heart beating, blood
pulse pressure, alcohol and glucose concentration in the blood stream,
intra-ocular pressure measurement, oximetry, coagulation of blood etc.
• To extract precise absolute value for the measured biomedical
parameters periodic personalized calibration is needed every 2-3 years.
• Ultra thin and multi-functional micro endoscope for minimally invasive
medical treatment and diagnostics was presented
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