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Year: 2012 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 476-479
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2012.476.479
Human Pulse Detection Using Multiple Silicon Microphones toward Estimation of Physical Condition
Shusaku Nomura, Yasushi Hanasaka, Yuudai Katsuda, Ryoma Hirota, Takashi Ishiguro, Kantaro Takada, Masaru Uryu and Hiroshi Ogawa

Abstract: An Electret Condenser Microphone (ECM) fabricated by Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology, or a silicon microphone chip, was integrated into a multiple sensor apparatus to detect human pulse wave toward estimation of physical condition of our body. Ten of MEMS-ECMs were placed at the forearm of a subject with multi-channel signal amplifier and recorder. As a developing result, it is successfully demonstrated that MEMS-ECM sensors are sensitive enough to detect human pulse wave. Moreover, it is suggested that an internal physical condition in relation to an activity of sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system might be estimated by comparing pulse signals derived by this multiple MEMS-ECM sensors.

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Shusaku Nomura, Yasushi Hanasaka, Yuudai Katsuda, Ryoma Hirota, Takashi Ishiguro, Kantaro Takada, Masaru Uryu and Hiroshi Ogawa, 2012. Human Pulse Detection Using Multiple Silicon Microphones toward Estimation of Physical Condition. Information Technology Journal, 11: 476-479.

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