Tony Nowicki developing a thermal sensor to measure low urinary flow rates. |
Dr. Michael Neuman
A sensor and instrumentation to monitor urine production and ionic content is being designed, fabricated and tested by undergraduate students in Professor Neuman's laboratory. The instrumentation is being designed and fabricated using thin-film and thick-film microelectronic technology. It will be used with critical care patients who have a urinary catheter in place. The sensor is located in a cartridge connected between the Foley catheter, the distal end of which is placed in the patient's bladder, and the urine collection device. Senior students Brooke Smith and Tony Nowicki have been working on a method to measure the low urinary flow rates using a thermal sensor, and former undergraduate students Paul Jermihov and Ryan McKindles worked on the design of the sensor component that measures the ionic content of the urine as it flows through the cartridge and the design of the cartridge itself respectively. The students are calibrating and testing their design using artificial urine, and they hope to have a system ready for clinical trials by the end of the 2007-8 academic year.
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Michael
R. Neuman, Ph. D., M.D.
Department
Chair
Biomedical sensors and instrumentation, physiological measurements and
perinatal medicine
Email: mneuman@mtu.edu
Telephone: 906-487-2772 or 906-487-1949 Fax: 906-487-1717 |
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