摘要 |
<p>Apparatus for measuring blood glucose concentration comprises a laser source (14) capable of producing a radiation beam from a tunable laser, a collimator (12, 13) for collimating the radiation beam (21) to a small diameter, an optical arrangement (12, 13) for directing the collimated beam (21) through the anterior chamber (23) of an eye (22) in a direction such that it forms a angle of between 75° and 105° to the line of sight (24) of the eye so that the beam does not directly strike the retina (26) and in particular the macular (27). A spectrometer (1-6) is provided to measure the intensity of Raman scattered radiation at different wavelengths. Signal processing means (15) derives the blood glucose concentration from the measured intensities. In one embodiment the laser is tunable between 500nm. and 700nm. and the laser beam is collimated to a diameter of between 1µm and 200µm.</p> |