For the assessment of body movements during sleep, a system for monitoring the temperature in bed was developed. The system consists of 16 temperature sensors and a data logger with a memory card. Fifteen of the temperature sensors were arranged in line 6 cm apart on a flat cable. The temperatures at these 15 points in the bed, and the room temperature measured by the additional sensor, were stored on the memory card at predetermined intervals. The data were transferred into a microcomputer and analysed. Changes in posture and body movement were recognizable from the changes in the temperature profile, and well visualized using a three-dimensional display of the successive temperature profiles in the bed. The time of body movement was estimated from the derivative of the temperature profile. Comparison between this estimation and the video recording showed good agreement. The linear arrangement of the sensors provides a high-resolution temperature profile during sleep.

In order to monitor physiological functions in daily life, possibilities of attaching measurement systems to the bed and sanitary equipments were examined. According to the preliminary experiments, it was revealed that 1 ) informations about body temperature and body movement during sleep could be obtained from temperature recordings in the bed, 2) ECG could be recorded in a bathtub through the tap water, and 3 ) heart rate could be estimated by ESGs obtained on the toilet seat.

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A harmonic coil assembly for the European XFEL superconducting magnet measurements was designed and fabricated in IHEP. Bare coil without protection tube was selected in order to save space and cover a larger measurement radius. The coil assembly can be moved along the anticryostat pipe and can be fixed at any position by rubber brakes touching on the inner surface of the pipe, which is a part of the magnet measurement dewar. The magnetic field can be measured by rotating the coil inside the anticryostat pipe at a selected position. The superconducting magnet package consists of a quadrupole, a horizontal and a vertical dipole. The harmonic coil includes a main coil for the quadrupole and for the dipole field measurement when the single coil mode is used to measure the main field component. Two bucking coils are available to compensate the quadrupole and dipole field respectively when the two-coil mode is used to measure the high order field harmonics. A skew coil with only 2 turns and open angle of 90 degrees can be used to cancel effects due to the angular differences between the main coil plane and the bucking coil plane. The harmonic coil was tested on quadrupoles for Korea Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), a high bucking ratio of 182 was reached. The coil was shipped and used in DESY to measure the XFEL superconducting magnets. The measurement precision and reproducibility were excellent and the driving and brake system worked well.