SELF-EMISSION NONINVASIVE INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETER

摘要

A method and apparatus for monitoring glucose, ethyl alcohol and other blood constituents in a noninvasive manner. The measurements are made by monitoring infrared absorption of the desired blood constituent in the long infrared wavelength range where the blood constituent has a strong and distinguishable absorption spectrum. The long wavelength infrared energy emitted by the person as heat is monitored and the infrared absorption of particular constituents in the blood (such as glucose or blood alcohol) is measured by infrared detector (412) at characteristic infrared absorption wavelengths for those constituents. The measurements are preferably synchronized with systole and diastole of the cardiac cycle monitored by cardiac monitor (718) so that the signal contribution caused by veins and tissues (which do not pulse) may be cancelled by (418) when a ratio of the detected signals is taken. The concentration of the blood constituents is then determined in accordance with a polynomial equation.