Polarimetric glucose sensing in an artificial eye anterior chamber Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The application of optical polarimetry to glucose sensing in the anterior chamber of the eye has emerged as a potential technique to noninvasively ascertain blood glucose levels. One of the major limiting factors preventing the realization of such a device is the time varying corneal birefringence due to motion artifact in the eye. The varying birefringence confounds the optical activity of glucose, and thus, needs to be taken into account in order to successfully predict the glucose concentration in the aqueous humor of the eye. Our group has developed a multi-spectral optical polarimetric approach which can minimize the effect of corneal birefringence coupled with motion artifact by treating it as common mode noise to multiple wavelengths. Here, we present the application of a real-time closed-loop dual wavelength polarimeter to ex vivo glucose sensing in excised New Zealand White rabbits' corneas mounted on an artificial anterior chamber. Our PID control system can reach stability in less than 100 ms which is fast enough to overcome motion artifact due to heart beat and respiration. The system can predict the glucose concentration with a standard error of less than 26 mg/dL in the physiologic glucose range of 0 - 500 mg/dL. Our results indicate that dualwavelength polarimetry has the potential to noninvasively probe glucose through the anterior chamber of the eye. 2012 SPIE.

name of conference

  • Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XII: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics; and Design and Performance Validation of Phantoms Used in Conjunction with Optical Measurement of Tissue IV

published proceedings

  • OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS AND SENSING XII: TOWARD POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS AND DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE VALIDATION OF PHANTOMS USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OPTICAL MEASUREMENT OF TISSUE IV

author list (cited authors)

  • Malik, B. H., Pirnstill, C. W., & Cote, G. L.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Malik, Bilal H||Pirnstill, Casey W||Cote, Gerard L

editor list (cited editors)

  • Nordstrom, R. J., & Coté, G. L.

publication date

  • January 2012