Heart rate variabilitymeasurement using a smartphone camera

In this article authors conduct a research targeting a possibilities of heart rate variability (HRV) measurement using smartphone camera. Factors strongly influencing the photoplethysmogram signal registered with smartphone camera are described. An algorithm for HRV signal measurement using photoplethysmogram is proposed. In order to perform simultaneous photoplethysmogram and electrocardiogram registration an experiment has been settled. Comparative analysis between HRV signals measured from photoplethysmogram and electrocardiogram is performed. Relying on such analysis quantitative estimates of quality of HRV signal measured from photoplethysmogram have been acquired. Demonstrated that proposed method has high accuracy. Results of this research will be used while developing an application that is capable of processing HRV signals in real time mode.В статье представлены результаты исследования возможности измерения вариабельности сердечного ритма (ВСР) при помощи камеры смартфона. Рассмотрены факторы, оказывающие сильное влияние на сигнал при регистрации фотоплетизмограммы с использованием камеры смартфона. Предложен алгоритм измерения сигнала ВСР по данным фотоплетизмограммы позволяет существенно уменьшить влияние описанных факторов, искажающих сигнал. Поставлен эксперимент, в ходе которого производилась одновременная регистрация фотоплетизмограммы (ФПГ) с использованием камеры смартфона и специального разработанного программного обеспечения, и электрокардиограммы (ЭКГ) с использованием электроэнцефалографа-анализатора. Проведен сравнительный анализ полученных сигналов ВСР ФПГ с данными измерений ВСР ЭКГ. По результатам сравнительного анализа приведены количественные оценки качества получаемого сигнала ВСР ФПГ. Показано, что предложенный алгоритм обработки ВСР ФПГ имеет высокую точность. Результаты исследования будут использованы при создании приложения, способного регистрировать и обрабатывать сигналы ВСР ФПГ в режиме реального времени

Nanodiamonds as Carriers for Address Delivery of Biologically Active Substances

Surface of detonation nanodiamonds was functionalized for the covalent attachment of immunoglobulin, and simultaneously bovine serum albumin and Rabbit Anti-Mouse Antibody. The nanodiamond-IgGI125 and RAM-nanodiamond-BSAI125 complexes are stable in blood serum and the immobilized proteins retain their biological activity. It was shown that the RAM-nanodiamond-BSAI125 complex is able to bind to the target antigen immobilized on the Sepharose 6B matrix through antibody–antigen interaction. The idea can be extended to use nanodiamonds as carriers for delivery of bioactive substances (i.e., drugs) to various targets in vivo

Preliminary study of video-based respiratory rate assessment

This paper presents the results of comparative study in physiological monitoring of human respiration rate between electrocardiography-based (ECG) method and video-based method of chest motion detection. The study involved 4 subjects aged from 30 to 70 years. During the study each subject lied on back. Total duration of the study conduct 1.5 hours. The results show that video-based and ECG-based respiration monitoring methods shows similar average respiration rate values. The outcome of the present work incites that video-based respiration assessment can be used as alternative or additional method of human respiration monitoring or diagnosingВ работе представлены результаты сравнительного анализа определения средней частоты дыхания человека полученной по данным сигнала электрокардиограммы (ЭКГ) и видеоизображений движений грудной клетки. В исследовании приняло участие 4 человека в возрасте от 30 до 70 лет. В ходе исследования испытуемые лежали на спине. Суммарная длительность исследований составила 1,5 часа. Показано, что оценки средней частоты дыхания по данным видеоизображений сопоставимы с оценками получаемыми по данным ЭКГ. Таким образом, метод определения дыхания по видеоизображениям может быть использован как альтернативный или дополнительный способ мониторинга или диагностики дыхания человека

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Two-dimensional photonic structures such as nanostructured pillar gratings are useful for various applications including wave coupling, diffractive optics, and security features. Two-photon lithography facilitates the generation of such nanostructured surfaces with high precision and reproducibility. In this work, we report on nanopillar diffraction gratings fabricated by two-photon lithography with various laser powers close to the polymerization threshold of the photoresist. As a result, defect-free arrays of pillars with diameters down to 184 nm were fabricated. The structure sizes were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy and compared to theoretical predictions obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. The optical reflectivities of the nanopillar gratings were analyzed by optical microscopy and verified by rigorous coupled-wave simulations. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland

Low field photo-CIDNP in the intramolecular electron transfer of naproxen–pyrrolidine dyads

[EN] Photoinduced processes with partial (exciplex) and full charge transfer in donor-acceptor systems are of interest because they are frequently used for modeling drug-protein binding. Low field photo-CIDNP (chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization) for these processes in dyads, including the drug, (S)-and (R)-naproxen and (S)-N-methyl pyrrolidine in solutions with strong and weak permittivity have been measured. The dramatic influence of solvent permittivity on the field dependence of the N-methyl pyrrolidine H-1 CIDNP effects has been found. The field dependences of both (R, S)-and (S, S)-dyads in a polar medium are the curves with a single extremum in the area of the S-T+ terms intersection. Moreover, the CIDNP field dependences of the same protons measured in a low polar medium present curves with several extrema. 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