Optical System For Health Assessment (ARD/110) | ASTRI - Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited

Project Title:

Optical System for Health Assessment (ARD/110)

Project Reference:

ARD/110

Project Type:

Seed

Project Period:

03 / 10 / 2012 - 02 / 04 / 2013

Funds Approved (HK$’000):

1998

Project Coordinator:

Dr Enboa Wu

Deputy Project Coordinator:

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Research Group:

Dr Lydia Leung
Dr Chun Zhang
Dr Dick Kwok
Mr Sunny Chu
Mr Arsenic Sze
Mr Sunny Chen
Mr Luis Ng

Sponsor:

Asia Diabetes Foundation
Care Health Information Technology Co. Ltd.
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Diabetes Association
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Description:

Due to an increasing aging population in the world and the changes in lifestyle, there is a substantial number of people with chronic diseases. They require homecare and long-term care services. In Hong Kong, there are about 700,000 diabetics. However, only approximately 400,000 patients are identified. Uncontrolled diabetes is devastating as it will lead to cardiovascular complications and kidney problems. Besides, the number of children who have diabetes has increased 10 times in the past 10 years. Effective blood glucose level management is crucial for keeping patients healthy and avoiding the occurrence of other chronic diseases. There is an urgent need to screen patients and detect diabetes or pre-diabetes before symptoms develop. Self monitoring blood glucose is highly recommended to diabetics. Currently, invasive blood glucose measurement is used which creates a psychological barrier to the public to test blood glucose periodically. In this project, we aim at studying the feasibility and building of an embedded optical system using off-the-shelf components for non-invasive blood glucose screening. The system can be easily used to measure blood glucose instantly and non-invasively. Hence, it can be used for screening of pre-diabeters and frequent blood glucose measuement.

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