Device and method for monitoring body fluid and electrolyte disorders
First Claim
1. A device for measuring body fluid-related metrics using optical spectrophotometry comprising:
- a probe housing configured to be placed proximal to a tissue location which is being monitored;
light emission optics connected to said housing and configured to direct radiation at said tissue location;
light detection optics connected to said housing and configured to receive radiation from said tissue location; and
a processing device configured to process radiation from said light emission optics and said light detection optics to compute said body fluid-related metrics.
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Abstract
A device and a method for measuring body fluid-related metrics using spectrophotometry to facilitate therapeutic interventions aimed at restoring body fluid balance. The specific body fluid-related metrics include the absolute volume fraction of water in the extravascular and intravascular tissue compartments, as well as the shifts of water between these two compartments. The absolute volume fraction of water is determined using algorithms where received radiation measured at two or more wavelengths are combined to form either a single ratio, a sum of ratios or ratio of ratios of the form log[R(λ1)/R(λ2)] in which the received radiation in the numerator depends primarily on the absorbance of water and the received radiation in the denominator depends primarily on the absorbance of water and the sum of the absorbances of non-heme proteins, lipids and water in tissue. The difference between the fraction of water in the intravascular fluid volume (“IFV”) and extravascular fluid volume (“EFV”) compartments are also determined using a differential method that takes advantage of the observation that pulsations caused by expansion of blood vessels in the skin as the heart beats produce changes in the received radiation at a particular wavelength that are proportional to the difference between the effective absorption of light in the blood and the surrounding tissue. This difference, integrated over time, provides a measure of the quantity of the fluid that shifts into and out of the capillaries. A mechanism for mechanically inducing a pulse is built into the device to improve the reliability of measurements of IFV-EFV under weak-pulse conditions.
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42 Claims
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1. A device for measuring body fluid-related metrics using optical spectrophotometry comprising:
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a probe housing configured to be placed proximal to a tissue location which is being monitored;
light emission optics connected to said housing and configured to direct radiation at said tissue location;
light detection optics connected to said housing and configured to receive radiation from said tissue location; and
a processing device configured to process radiation from said light emission optics and said light detection optics to compute said body fluid-related metrics. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A device for measuring the absolute volume fraction of water within human tissue using optical spectrophotometry comprising:
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a probe housing configured to be placed proximal to a tissue location which is being monitored;
light emission optics configured to direct radiation at said tissue location, wherein said light emission optics comprises one of a (a) incandescent light sources, (b) white light sources and (c) light emitting diodes (“
LEDs”
) which are tuned to emit radiation at a plurality of narrow spectral wavelengths chosen to be preferentially absorbed by tissue water, non-heme proteins and lipids;
a photodiode configured to receive radiation from said tissue location;
a processing device configured to process radiation from said light emission optics and said light detection optics to compute said absolute volume fraction of water, wherein said processing device receives and compares at least two sets of optical measurements, where the at least first set of optical measurements corresponds to the detection of light whose absorption is primarily due to water, lipids and non-heme proteins, and where the at least second set of optical measurements corresponds to the detection of light whose absorption is primary due to water, and where a comparison of said at least two optical measurements provides a measure of the absolute water fraction within said tissue location; and
a display device connected to said probe housing and configured to display said absolute volume fraction of water. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35)
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36. A device for measuring a difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume using optical spectrophotometry comprising:
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a probe housing configured to be placed proximal to a tissue location which is being monitored;
light emission optics configured to direct radiation at said tissue location, wherein said light emission optics comprises one of a (a) incandescent light sources, (b) white light sources or (c) light emitting diodes (“
LEDs”
) which are tuned to emit radiation at a plurality of narrow spectral wavelengths chosen so that the biological compound of interest will absorb light at said plurality of narrow spectral wavelengths and so that absorption by interfering species will be at a minimum;
a photodiode configured to receive radiation from said tissue location;
a processing device configured to process radiation from said light emission optics and said light detection optics to compute said difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume, wherein said processing device receives and compares at least two sets of optical measurements from at least two different wavelengths, where absorption of light at said at least two different wavelengths is primarily due to water which is in the vascular blood and in the extravascular tissue, and where a comparison of said at least two measurements provides a measure of a difference between the fractions of water in the blood and surrounding tissue location; and
a display device connected to said probe housing and configured to display said difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40)
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41. A method for measuring a volume fraction of water in a human tissue location using optical spectrophotometry comprising:
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placing a probe housing proximal to said tissue location;
emitting radiation at at least two wavelengths using light emission optics configured to direct radiation at said tissue location;
detecting radiation using light detection optics configured to receive radiation from said tissue location;
processing said radiation from said light emission optics and said light detection optics;
computing said volume fraction of water, where said volume fraction determined by;
measuring at least two sets of optical measurements based on received radiation of said at least two wavelengths;
combining said at least two sets of optical measurements to form either a single ratio of said received radiation, a sum of ratios of said received radiation or ratios of ratios of said received radiation to form combinations of received radiation;
determining said volume fraction of water and from said combinations; and
displaying said volume fraction of water on a display device connected to said probe housing.
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42. A method for measuring a difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume in a human tissue location using optical spectrophotometry comprising:
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placing a probe housing proximal to said tissue location;
emitting radiation using light emission optics configured to direct radiation at said tissue location;
detecting radiation using light detection optics configured to receive radiation from said tissue location;
processing said radiation from said light emission optics and said light detection optics;
computing said difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume, and where said difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume is determined such that and where;
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wblood is the water fraction in the blood;
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wtissue is the water fraction in the extravascular tissue;
is the ratio of dc-normalized received radiation changes at a first wavelength, λ
1 and a second wavelength, λ
2 respectively, where said received radiation changes are caused by a pulsation caused by expansion of blood vessels in tissue in response to a heart beat;
calibration constants c0 and c1 are chosen empirically; and
displaying said difference between an intravascular fluid volume and an extravascular fluid volume on a display device.
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