NDLI: Highly accurate thermal flow microsensor for continuous and quantitative measurement of cerebral blood flow

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Author	Li, Chunyan Wu, Pei ming Wu, Zhizhen Limnuson, Kakwan Mehan, Neal Mozayan, Cameron Golav, Eugene V. Ahn, Chong H. Hartings, Jed A. Narayan, Raj K.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Cerebral blood flow (CBF) plays a critical role in the exchange of nutrients and metabolites at the capillary level and is tightly regulated to meet the metabolic demands of the brain. After major brain injuries, CBF normally decreases and supporting the injured brain with adequate CBF is a mainstay of therapy after traumatic brain injury. Quantitative and localized measurement of CBF is therefore critically important for evaluation of treatment efficacy and also for understanding of cerebral pathophysiology. We present here an improved thermal flow microsensor and its operation which provides higher accuracy compared to existing devices. The flow microsensor consists of three components, two stacked-up thin film resistive elements serving as composite heater/temperature sensor and one remote resistive element for environmental temperature compensation. It operates in constant-temperature mode (~2 °C above the medium temperature) providing 20 ms temporal resolution. Compared to previous thermal flow microsensor based on self-heating and self-sensing design, the sensor presented provides at least two-fold improvement in accuracy in the range from 0 to 200 ml/100 g/min. This is mainly achieved by using the stacked-up structure, where the heating and sensing are separated to improve the temperature measurement accuracy by minimization of errors introduced by self-heating.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872176
Journal	Biomedical Microdevices
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15728781
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-08-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Thermal flow microsensor Cerebral blood flow Thin-film resistive element Self-heating error Biomedical Engineering Biophysics and Biological Physics Nanotechnology Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering

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