Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Blood Glucose Monitoring in Human Subjects

TL;DR

This paper presents a polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography device designed to monitor blood glucose levels in humans, demonstrating a linear relationship between polarization measurements and glucose concentration.

Contribution

The study introduces a novel PS-OCT device for blood glucose monitoring and validates its effectiveness with human subjects and tissue phantoms.

Findings

Linear dependence of polarization on glucose levels

Successful testing with human subjects

Potential for non-invasive glucose monitoring

Abstract

A device based on Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography is developed to monitor blood glucose levels in human subjects. The device was initially tested with tissue phantom. The measurements with human subjects for various glucose concentration levels are found to be linearly dependent on the degree of circular polarization obtainable from the PS-OCT.