Beg to differ: We are having a mad desire for CHEAPER blood testing.
$1.20/stab is too much at 3 to 4 per day. Medicare only covers 2.
The pain? Very little, often none.
Ol' Bab
On 10/25/2013 1:15 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
I ran across this article which might be of interest:
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/10/measuring-blood-sugar-light
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
<[email protected]> wrote:
Attention all in the Vort collective:
I hope you all don't mind if I take a few bytes of bandwidth to request some
help with the R&D I've been working on... which is noninvasive blood glucose
measurement using RF/microwaves. The attached pic shows the results for
just one of the diabetics tested; for this one we could get a good
calibration on 82 data points (taken in Feb 2010), and then the calibrated
equation accurately estimated the remaining 120 samples which were taken
thru March. Follow-up testing in June also gave good results with little
degradation. Predictive accuracy over time is a major accomplishment in this
work.
We have a database of ~87GB, most of which was on five Type-1 diabetics over
the course of 2 months; clinical lab-grade blood chemistries for most of
that data. During RF scans we are also taking skin temperature every 100
millisecs...
Our investor has given us until the end of the year to improve our
calibration/predictive algorithms as much as possible before we market the
technology for the next phase of development. We are currently at
+-20% accuracy for ~80% of our samples (~1000 samples on the 5 test
subjects). The technology is not optimized, so this may be all we can hope
for with the current sensor design and algorithms. But, we need to use the
time left to make whatever improvements we can...
I am in search of some very bright individuals with expertise in
mathematical modeling and bioelectromagnetics; perhaps statistics, but
targeted toward medical device testing. Knowledge of RF Scattering
Parameters (S-Params) which come out of a modern Network Analyzer (Agilent
PNA-5230) would also be very helpful. We already have some very extensive
MatLab code which builds mathematical models, one term at a time, and it may
be better to add to this rather than creating from scratch. IF you're very
competent and like a real challenge, and want a break from the E-Cat fiasco,
then please contact me @:
[email protected]
or
[email protected]
There are now 366 million diabetics in the world, and they have been in need
of a truly painless way to measure their blood sugar. You could be one of
the keys to solving the challenges which make this a reality for them...
Thanks for your time...
Now back to your regularly scheduled E-Cat frustration!
:-)
-Mark Iverson
