A Magnetic Resonance-compatible wearable device based on functionalized fiber optic sensor for respiratory monitoring

There is a growing demand of comfortable and unobtrusive wearable systems for monitoring a variety of physiological parameters and in particular the respiratory frequency ( ${f}_{R}$ ). The most popular techniques for ${f}_{R}$ monitoring cannot be used in several clinical applications and in unstructured environment. These issues have fostered a dramatic growth of interest for wearable systems ...