“…4 In such cases, the risk of thrombotic complications will rise, thus increasing the need for realtime thrombus detection. Thus far, various approaches to real-time thrombus monitoring in extracorporeal circuits have been proposed based on electrical, 5,6 sound, 7,8 or Real-time, non-invasive thrombus detection in an extracorporeal circuit using micro-optical thrombus sensors 1 Sensing System Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tosu, Saga, Japan 2 Health and Medical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan optical [9][10][11][12] principles. However, invasiveness remains an issue with electrical monitoring techniques, as electrodes must be in contact with the blood.…”