Virtual instrumentation for a new health care device

Abstract

Nowadays, the assessment of body composition by estimating the percentage of body fat has a great impact in many fields such as nutrition, health, sports, chronic diseases and others. The main purpose for this work is to demonstrate the development of a Virtual Instrument that permits more effective assessment of body fat, automatic data processing, recording results and storage in a database, with high potential to conduct new studies.Index Termsvirtual instrument, wireless communication, biomedical equipment, medical diagnosis.

Project Based Learning Activities in Engineering Education

“…Since then the author has been working in the development of the LipoTool system, Fig. 5, collaborating in two already submitted patents now pending (one national and another international, [4][5]), participating actively in the market evaluation, collaborating in the submissions of LipoTool to two awards recently achieved, also co-authoring several communications in conferences [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], where he has represented the team. Six LipoTool systems have been sold and are now working in research centers/units/institutions.…”

Testing the concurrent validity and reliability of a lipowise digital skinfold caliper to assess muscle mass in healthy young adults

“…Lipowise is a patented digital skinfold caliper classified as a medical device that is connectable with iOS/Android APPs, that provides several features, including 48 equations applicable to 15 possible skinfolds to estimate body fat percentage. Lipowise applies a constant compression force of 10 gf/mm 2 (error<5%) with a resolution of 0.1 mm (error<5%) at a sample rate of 100 Hz (100 values/second), which allows the profile to be traced and the tissue compressibility to be analyzed [ 15 , 16 ]. The PRO version has an aluminum body and a measurement range of 100 mm; the LIGHT version has a polymeric body with a measurement range of 50 mm.…”