Silicon photonics-based laser Doppler vibrometer array for carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurement

  • YANLU LI
  • , LOUISE MARAIS
  • , HAKIM KHETTAB
  • , ZHIHENG QUAN
  • , SOREN AASMUL
  • , ROB LEINDERS
  • , RALF SCHÜLER
  • , PADRAIC E. MORRISSEY
  • , STEPHEN GREENWALD
  • , PATRICK SEGERS
  • , MICHAEL VANSLEMBROUCK
  • , ROSA M. BRUNO
  • , PIERRE BOUTOUYRIE
  • , PETER O'BRIEN
  • , MIRKO DE MELIS
  • , ROEL BAETS

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Abstract

Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a reference measure for aortic stiffness, itself an important biomarker of cardiovascular risk. To enable low-cost and easy-to-use PWV measurement devices that can be used in routine clinical practice, we have designed several handheld PWV sensors using miniaturized laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) arrays in a silicon photonics platform. The LDV-based PWV sensor design and the signal processing protocol to obtain pulse transit time (PTT) and carotid-femoral PWV in a feasibility study in humans, are described in this paper. Compared with a commercial reference PWV measurement system, measuring arterial pressure waveforms by applanation tonometry, LDV-based displacement signals resulted in more complex signals. However, we have shown that it is possible to identify reliable fiducial points for PTT calculation using the maximum of the 2nd derivative algorithm in LDV-based signals, comparableto those obtained by the reference technique, applanation tonometry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3913-3926
Number of pages14
JournalBiomedical Optics Express
Volume11
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2020

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