Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 8, Issue 2, 1550013(2015)
An assessment study of absorption effect: LED vs tungsten halogen lamp for noninvasive glucose detection
Noninvasive glucose monitoring development is critical for diabetic patient continuous monitoring. However, almost all the available devices are invasive and painful. Noninvasive methods such as using spectroscopy have shown some good results. Unfortunately, the drawback was that the tungsten halogen lamps usage that is impractical if applied on human skin. This paper compared the light emitting diode (LED) to traditional tungsten halogen lamps as light source for glucose detection where the type of light source plays an important role in achieving a good spectrum quality. Glucose concentration measurement has been developed as part of noninvasive technique using optical spectroscopy. Small change and overlapping in tungsten halogen results need to replace it with a more convenient light source such as LED. Based on the result obtained, the performance of LED for absorbance spectrum gives a significantly different and is directly proportional to the glucose concentration. The result shows a linear trend and successfully detects lowest at 60 to 160 mg/dL glucose concentration.
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Nur Ain Mohd Aziz, Norhana Arsad, P. Susthitha Menon, Sahbudin Shaari, Zalhan Md Yusof, Abdur Rehman Laili. An assessment study of absorption effect: LED vs tungsten halogen lamp for noninvasive glucose detection[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2015, 8(2): 1550013
Received: Jun. 9, 2014
Accepted: Oct. 13, 2014
Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019
The Author Email: Arsad Norhana (norhana@eng.ukm.my)