ACTIVE PULSE BLOOD CONSTITUENT MONITORING

摘要

A blood glucose monitoring system (100) is disclosed which provides for inducing an active pulse in the blood volume of a patient. The induction of an active pulse results in a cyclic, and periodic change in the flow of blood through a fleshy medium (310) under test. By actively inducing a change of the blood volume, modulation of the volume of blood can be obtained to provide a greater signal to noise ratio. This allows for the detection of constituents in blood at concentration leve ls below those previously detectable in a non-invasive system. Radiation which passes through the fleshy medium is detected by a detector (320) which generates a signal indicative of the intensity of the detected radiation. Signal processing is performed on the electrical signal to isolate those optical characteristics of the electrical signal due to the optical characteristics of the blood.