DISEASE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS METHOD THEREOF, AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130331671A1
• Filed: 06/14/2012
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University (Chosun University)
• Original Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University (Chosun University)
• Inventors: KIM, Youn-Tae, LEE, Ji-Hwan, JUNG, Jae-Hyo
• Application Number:
  US13/523,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20130331671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/345
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1477 non-invasive

Abstract

A disease diagnosis apparatus and a disease diagnosis method thereof, and a disease diagnosis system and a disease diagnosis method thereof are provided. The disease diagnosis apparatus includes a patch including one or more diagnosis modules collecting blood and measuring concentrations of one or more cardinal markers included in the collected blood, and a processor wirelessly transmitting measurement results to a server.

Claims

1. A disease diagnosis apparatus comprising:

a patch including one or more diagnosis modules collecting blood and measuring concentrations of one or more cardinal markers included in the blood; and

a processor wirelessly transmitting measurement results to a server.

2. The disease diagnosis apparatus of claim 1, wherein the diagnosis module comprises:

a blood reception unit collecting blood based on pressure applied to the diagnosis module by using a micro-needle; and

a sensor unit sensing an amount of current generated through an oxidation-reduction reaction between an antibody to which respective cardinal markers are attached and an antigen included in the collected blood by using a three-dimensional (3D) electrochemical sensor, and measuring a concentration of each of one or more cardinal markers included in the collected blood based on the sensed amount of currents.

3. The disease diagnosis apparatus of claim 2, wherein the blood reception unit provides the collected blood to the sensor unit by using a micro-fluidic chip, and the sensor unit removes impurities included in the blood provided from the blood reception unit by using a multilayer thin film.

4. The disease diagnosis apparatus of claim 1, wherein the patch is detachable, and when the patch includes a plurality of diagnosis modules, diagnoses are repeatedly performed a plurality of times by attaching a single patch.

5. The disease diagnosis apparatus of claim 1, wherein the cardinal markers include at least one of myoglobin, creatine kinase-myocardial band (CK-MB), troponin T, and troponin I.

6. A disease diagnosis method of a disease diagnosis apparatus, the method comprising:

collecting blood by using one or more diagnosis modules of a patch and measuring concentrations of one or more cardinal markers included in the collected blood; and

wirelessly transmitting measurement results to a server.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the collecting of blood and measuring a concentration comprises:

collecting blood based on pressure applied to the diagnosis module by using a micro-needle; and

sensing an amount of current generated through an oxidation-reduction reaction between an antibody to which respective cardinal markers are attached and an antigen included in the collected blood by using a three-dimensional (3D) electrochemical sensor, and measuring a concentration of each of one or more cardinal markers included in the collected blood based on the sensed amount of currents.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

removing impurities included in the collected blood by using a multilayer thin film, before measuring the concentration thereof.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the patch is detachable, and when the patch includes a plurality of diagnosis modules, diagnosing is repeatedly performed a plurality of times by attaching a single patch.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the cardinal markers include at least one of myoglobin, creatine kinase-myocardial band (CK-MB), troponin T, and troponin I.

11. A disease diagnosis system comprising:

a disease diagnosis apparatus including a patch including one or more diagnosis modules collecting blood and measuring concentrations of one or more cardinal markers included in the collected blood, and a processor wirelessly transmitting measurement results to a server by way of a portable terminal; and

a server transmitting diagnosis result data determined based on the measurement results to the disease diagnosis apparatus by way of the portable terminal.

12. A disease diagnosis method of a disease diagnosis system, the method comprising:

collecting, by a disease diagnosis apparatus, blood by using one or more diagnosis modules of a patch, measuring concentrations of one or more cardinal markers included in the collected blood, and wirelessly transmitting measurement results to a server by way of a portable terminal; and

transmitting, by the server, diagnosis result data determined based on the measurement results to the disease diagnosis apparatus by way of the portable terminal.