Multifunctional Phototherapy Device Design

Year 2019, Volume: 19 Issue: 1, 65 - 71, 01.01.2019

Mehmet Akşahin

Abstract

DOI: 10.26650/electrica.2019.18022

Today, phototherapy devices are used to
treat newborn jaundice. However, there are some cases that the commercial
phototherapy devices are inadequate. Most of the device are controlled only at
the certain interval that prevents instantaneous monitoring the newborn’s vital
parameters.  For other cases, devices are
one-way lighting. In addition, when the baby is taken away from the device,
unnecessary lighting causes the decrease in LED’s lifetime. In the scope of the
study, intensive phototherapy device was developed to eliminate deficiencies
that are mentioned above. Properties of the developed phototherapy device are;
Automatic detection of newborn's presence, double-sided illumination,
continuous monitoring with IP webcam, temperature measurement of the
environment and also newborn’s body temperature. The light intensity of the
device was measured with a photometer as 28.6 μW/cm²/nm that was obtained from
460nm wavelength LED illumination in both top and bottom in accordance with the
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guideline.

Cite this article as: Akşahin M.
Multifunctional Phototherapy Device Design. Electrica, 2019; 19(1): 65-71.

Keywords

Neonatal Jaundice, Phototherapy, Multifunctional System Design and Control

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• Mehmet Feyzi Akşahin received the B.S degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Başkent University, and the Ph.D. degree in in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University and Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002, 2010 respectively. At 2003, he joined to Başkent University, biomedical engineering department as a research assistant. He made his postdoctoral study at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA in 2013. He has been working as an assistant professor at Başkent University, biomedical engineering since 2015. His research areas are signal processing, medical device design, intelligent systems and image processing.