Enter the world now …
February is Raynaud’s awareness month: https://www.sruk.co.uk/get-involved/awareness-events/knowraynauds/?gclid=CjwKCAiA9aKQBhBREiwAyGP5lSGDtvPtqM6UsH-mAO7DXiMUbTlkJwsZj9fI6cuC-HlzI1taNt_0gRoC3YwQAvD_BwE
Joint Newcastle and Coventry endeavours looking at objective skin colour measurements and skin temperature – seems to add to the mystery of Raynaud’s: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/explorations-in-skin-temperature-and-objective-skin-colour-measur
Was approached late last year by IoP Publishing for an interview about some recent successes in the science and engineering of Photoplethysmography (PPG)- to talk about a combi of publication related outputs i.e., the recent Physiological Measurement journal Editorial / Focus Collection my team had assembled on this vascular optics technique (19 articles https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6579/ac2d82), a medical physics / engineering citation bonanza with the 2007 PPG technology review article in Physiological Measurement https://badge.dimensions.ai/details/id/pub.1059123115/citations // https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0967-3334/28/3/R01/meta, and the new first ever holistic PPG book (Elsevier 2021) https://www.elsevier.com/books/photoplethysmography/kyriacou/978-0-12-823374-0.
Extracts of the interview were used in the recent podcast for Physics World (see link below – starts around 28 minutes in). Existentially, it became merged with a scientific discussion on the excellent satirical movie “Don’t Look Up”, which I suppose one could look at positively in a squintish sort of way.
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Edited by Kryiacou and Allen – 14 chapters, with additional contributions from world leading experts on PPG.
Photoplethysmography: Technology, Signal Analysis, and Applications is the first comprehensive volume on the theory, principles, and technology (sensors and electronics) of photoplethysmography (PPG). It provides a detailed description of the current state-of-the-art technologies/optical components enabling the extreme miniaturization of such sensors, as well as comprehensive coverage of PPG signal analysis techniques including machine learning and artificial intelligence. The book also outlines the huge range of PPG applications in healthcare, with a strong focus on the contribution of PPG in wearable sensors and PPG for cardiovascular assessment. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Photoplethysmography-Technology-Signal-Analysis-Applications/dp/012823374
Chapters can also be downloaded / or as a whole bundle. Please see your library about accessing the book this way.
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