Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide. The rapid
development of flexible sensing technologies and wearable pressure sensors have attracted …

In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to
medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility …

Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few
decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal …

This paper presents the development and application of a multiparameter, quasi-distributed
smart textile based on embedded highly stretchable polymer optical fiber (POF) sensors …

Flexible sensors have the potential to be seamlessly applied to soft and irregularly shaped
surfaces such as the human skin or textile fabrics. This benefits conformability dependant …

Wearable e-textiles are able to perform electronic functions and are perceived as a way to
add features into common wearable textiles, building competitive market advantages. The e …

Optical sensors play an increasingly important role in the development of medical diagnostic
devices. They can be very widely used to measure the physiology of the human body …

Thermophysiological comfort in humans is sought universally but seldom achieved due to
biological and physiological variances. Most people in developed parts of the world rely on …

Healthcare system is undergoing a significant transformation from a traditional hospital-
centered to an individual-centered one, as a result of escalating chronic diseases, ageing …

Wearable optical fiber sensors have great potential for development in medical monitoring.
With the increasing demand for compactness, comfort, accuracy, and other features in new …