Portable optical fiber probe for in vivo brain temperature measurements

Stefan Musolino; Erik P Schartner; Georgios Tsiminis; Abdallah Salem; Tanya M Monro; Mark R Hutchinson

doi:10.1364/BOE.7.003069

Portable optical fiber probe for in vivo brain temperature measurements

Biomed Opt Express. 2016 Jul 20;7(8):3069-77. doi: 10.1364/BOE.7.003069. eCollection 2016 Aug 1.

Authors

Stefan Musolino¹, Erik P Schartner², Georgios Tsiminis¹, Abdallah Salem³, Tanya M Monro⁴, Mark R Hutchinson¹

Affiliations

¹ ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
² ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; School of Physical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
³ School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
⁴ ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; The University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.

Abstract

This work reports on the development of an optical fiber based probe for in vivo measurements of brain temperature. By utilizing a thin layer of rare-earth doped tellurite glass on the tip of a conventional silica optical fiber a robust probe, suitable for long-term in vivo measurements of temperature can be fabricated. This probe can be interrogated using a portable optical measurement setup, allowing for measurements to be performed outside of standard optical laboratories.

Keywords: (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (120.6780) Temperature; (170.3890) Medical optics instrumentation; (170.6280) Spectroscopy, fluorescence and luminescence.