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6445938 Method for determining blood glucose levels from a single surface of the skin  
This involves a non-invasive glucose measurement device and a process for determining blood glucose level in the human body using the device. In typical operation, the glucose measurement device is...
6442409 Diagnostic system and method using radiant energy and implants  
A system for testing for the existence of a biomedical condition of an animal test subject having first and second devices for projecting radiant energy. The first device for projecting radiant...
6442410 Non-invasive blood glucose measurement system and method using optical refractometry  
A method for determining blood glucose levels by measuring the glucose concentration in the ocular aqueous humor using optical refractometry by passing laser light the aqueous ocular humor,...
6430424 Infrared ATR glucose measurement system utilizing a single surface of skin  
This involves a non-invasive glucose measurement device and a process for determining blood glucose level in the human body using the device. In typical operation, the glucose measurement device is...
6424847 Glucose monitor calibration methods  
A method of calibrating glucose monitor data includes collecting the glucose monitor data over a period of time at predetermined intervals. It also includes obtaining at least two reference glucose...
6424848 Method for preparing skin surface and determining glucose levels from that surface  
This involves a non-invasive glucose measurement device and a process for determining blood glucose level in the human body using the device. In typical operation, the glucose measurement device is...
6424849 Self-contained method for determining blood glucose levels from an IR beam reflected from the surface of the skin  
This involves a non-invasive glucose measurement device and a process for determining blood glucose level in the human body using the device. In typical operation, the glucose measurement device is...
6411832 Method of improving reproducibility of non-invasive measurements  
A method of improving the accuracy and reproducibility of non-invasive measurements of a concentration of a constituent of interest carried in a body part has been developed. The method relies on...
6405069 Time-resolved optoacoustic method and system for noninvasive monitoring of glucose  
The present invention is directed to a method/system of monitoring in real time changes in concentration of glucose in tissues. Laser-induced profiles of absorbed optical energy distribution in...
6377828 Method for non-invasive measurement of an analyte  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for measuring an analyte in a tissue of a subject. The method comprises contacting the tissue with electromagnetic radiation having a first excitation...
6370407 System for improving the sensitivity and stability of optical polarimetric measurements  
A polarimeter adapted for measurement of the concentration of glucose in a sample includes a laser beam passing through a first polarizer and an optical modulator and split into a measurement beam...
6309884 Individual calibration of blood glucose for supporting noninvasive self-monitoring blood glucose  
A method is provided for calibrating a noninvasive glucose monitor for prospective noninvasive glucose determination. Spectroscopic transflectance readings are measured on the patient's skin using...
6289230 Tissue modulation process for quantitative noninvasive in vivo spectroscopic analysis of tissues  
Methods are provided for noninvasively measuring blood volume and analyte concentration and for obtaining spectroscopic information relating to immobile tissues, such as skin. One method is for...
6219565 Methods and apparatus for non-invasive glucose sensing: non-invasive probe  
Disclosed is a probe 2 suitable for use in the non-invasive sensing of glucose concentrations in the body of a patient. The probe 2 includes at least three radiation receiving fibers 16 extending...
6216022 Implantable optical measurement device and method for using same  
A method and apparatus for making an optical measurement through a tissue such as skin of a person includes an implantable optical system having an entry window, an exit window, a reference path...
6168563 Remote health monitoring and maintenance system  
A system and method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health...
6167290 Method and apparatus of non-invasive measurement of human/animal blood glucose and other metabolites  
A method and apparatus for non-invasively measuring animal/human blood glucose and other metabolites including an excitation laser source, a negative pressure based sampling port which interfaces...
6152875 Glucose concentration measuring method and apparatus  
A light beam, which has been radiated out of a predetermined light source, is irradiated to the eyeball lying at a predetermined position. Each of intensity values of first and second backward...
6149588 Blood sugar value measuring method and apparatus  
Near infrared rays of λ1, λ2, λ3 in wavelength which are different from and near to one another are irradiated from a light source (2) to a part being measured (F) of a living body in such a...
6151517 Method and apparatus for noninvasive quantitative measurement of blood analytes  
A method and apparatus for performing quantitative noninvasive measurement of blood analytes, includes correction for measurement interference caused by pulse beat and changing body chemistry...
6119026 Radiation apparatus and method for analysis of analytes in sample  
A technique that uses wavelet analysis to analyze the concentration of an analyte in a sample. The technique includes irradiating the sample with electromagnetic radiation and detecting a resulting...
6113537 Optical method and device for determining blood glucose levels  
Blood glucose levels of a person are determined by a device which provides a light pattern which varies in regard to one or several parameters defining its luminance, color, rate of flicker,...
6097975 Apparatus and method for noninvasive glucose measurement  
An apparatus and method for noninvasively measuring blood glucose concentration. The apparatus disclosed uses light pulses directed onto a patient's skin and reflected back from the patient to...
6088606 Method and apparatus for determining a duration of a medical condition  
A system and method for determining a duration that a patient has been experiencing a medical condition compares characteristics of fluorescent emissions from a target tissue to expected...
6088605 Method and apparatus for non-invasive blood glucose sensing  
A method and apparatus (12) for the non-invasive sensing of blood glucose levels includes apparatus (10) which moves the forearm of the patient in a controlled incremental manner to take a...
6064897 Sensor utilizing Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive monitoring of analytes in biological fluid and method of use  
A noninvasive Raman sensor and an associated method of measuring at least one parameter of a sample, such as the presence or concentration of an analyte. The sensor includes (a) at least one...
6064896 Non-invasive measurement of blood glucose using instruments that have less precise detection capability  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving an accuracy characteristic of a quantitative measurement instrument for measuring a blood analyte concentration by using lower precision sensor...
6061582 Method and apparatus for non-invasive determination of physiological chemicals, particularly glucose  
Non-invasive measurements of physiological chemicals such as glucose in a test subject are made using infrared radiation and a signal processing system. The level of a selected physiological...
6049805 Dynamic event mechanism for objects with associational relationships  
A dynamic or latebound event mechanism provides event mechanism operation according to associational relationships among objects. In addition, objects may be responsive to event notification...
6049728 Method and apparatus for noninvasive measurement of blood glucose by photoacoustics  
A method and apparatus for noninvasively measuring blood glucose levels provides an indirect, reagentless, differential, photoacoustic technique which responds to absorption in a thin surface...
6049727 Implantable sensor and system for in vivo measurement and control of fluid constituent levels  
An in vivo implantable sensor obtains spectra of body fluid constituents and processes the spectra to determine the concentration of a constituent of the body fluid. The sensor includes an optical...
6026314 Method and device for noninvasive measurements of concentrations of blood components  
A method and device for noninvasive measurement of blood component concentrations utilizes pulsed polychromatic light source emitting, light in the near infrared range 800-1850 nm. The light is...
6016435 Device for non-invasive determination of a glucose concentration in the blood of a subject  
A device for non-invasive determination of a glucose concentration in the blood of a subject which includes a light source for producing near-infrared radiation having successive wavelengths within...
6002953 Non-invasive IR transmission measurement of analyte in the tympanic membrane  
The invention provides non-invasive methods and apparati for measurement of the concentration of a selected constituent of a subject's blood. The invention cools a segment of the subject's tympanic...
5974337 Method and apparatus for rapid non-invasive determination of blood composition parameters  
A method and apparatus for rapid non-invasive determination of blood composition parameters. A blood-containing body part of a live organism is irradiated with electromagnetic radiation of...
5969815 Glucose concentration measuring method and apparatus with a coherent source and heterodyne interferometer  
A low coherence light beam is irradiated to the eyeball. A backward scattered light beam, which is reflected from each depth position in the eyeball, and a reference light beam, which is reflected...
5961451 Noninvasive apparatus having a retaining member to retain a removable biosensor  
In accordance with a first aspect, a noninvasive apparatus comprises a housing (42) having a grasping region (44), and a noninvasive extraction device (10) to noninvasively extract a sample from a...
5957841 Method of determining a glucose concentration in a target by using near-infrared spectroscopy  
A glucose concentration in a living tissue as a target is determined by the following method. Near-infrared radiation is projected on the living tissue, and a resulting radiation emitted from the...
5954643 Insertion set for a transcutaneous sensor  
An improved insertion set is provided for transcutaneous placement of a sensor such as a glucose sensor at a selected site within the body of a patient. The insertion set comprises a mounting base...
5926021 Method of magnetic resonance imaging for the time-resolved imaging of pulsatile vessels (projection angiography)  
A magnetic resonance imaging method comprises exciting spins in an investigation volume via a radio frequency pulse and the signal produced thereby is subsequently read-out after appropriate...
5920393 Methods and apparatus for identifying and quantifying constituent compounds in a specimen using modulated polychromatic partially polarized light  
Methods and devices for determining the identity and concentration of constituent compounds within a test specimen. The methods are based on the principle that a specific compound in a specific...
5899855 Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system  
A modular self-care health monitoring system employs a compact microprocessor-based unit such as a video game system of the type that includes switches for controlling device operation and a...
5896198 Optical heterodyne-based method and apparatus for determining the concentration of optically active substances  
In a method for determining concentration of an optically active substance in a medium, a laser beam with two eigen modes of two different temporal frequencies and two orthogonal linear polarized...
5836317 Transcutaneous non-bloody determination of the concentration of substances in the blood  
Methods for transcutaneous and non-bloody in vivo determination of an analyte in blood which includes spectroscopically generating at least one first signal corresponding to at least one analyte...
5795305 Process and device for non-invasive determination of glucose concentration in parts of the human body  
A device is suitable both for determining with high accuracy and precision the temperature of the human body (surface temperature, temperature in layers next to the surface, temperature in bodily...
5788632 Apparatus and process for the non-invasive measurement of optically active compounds  
An apparatus and a process of determining the concentration of an optically active compound in a biological sample are provided. The process measures the entire polarization state of the sample and...
5710630 Method and apparatus for determining glucose concentration in a biological sample  
A method for the analytical determination of the glucose concentration in a biological sample. In a detection step, light is irradiated into the sample and the light emerging therefrom after...
5692504 Method and apparatus for the analysis of glucose in a biological matrix  
Method and apparatus for the analytical determination of glucose concentration in a biological matrix, wherein in a detection step light from a light emitter is irradiated into the biological...
5687721 Measurement device for non-invasively determining the concentration of polarising substances  
A device and method are disclosed for noninvasively measuring the concentration of sugar in the blood of a human subject. The method includes generating a beam of monochromatic light, confining the...
5676143 Apparatus for analytical determination of glucose in a biological matrix  
An apparatus for determination of a glucose concentration in a biological matrix includes an irradiation device for irradiating light as primary light into a biological matrix, and a detection...
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