Feasibility study of long period grating as an optical biosensor for dengue virus detection - An alternative approach to dengue virus screening

Kuanphang Chan, Chingseong Tan, Woonsheng Teng, Faidz Abdul Rahman, Siewchoo Soon, Zahid Ridzuan Zulkifly

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Abstract

Dengue being one of the current global epidemic diseases currently is mainly found in tropical and large swamp areas. A fast diagnostic method is required to give an accurate result of a suspected dengue patient in order to save lives. Long period grating -LPG (or sometimes known as long period fibre grating-LPFG) has a fast detection method almost to real time gives an immediate result and it is highly sensitive towards its ambient refractive index. Long period grating is a modified fibre optic with grating at a specific portion of the optical fibre; the fibre optics signal transmission does not decay easily and remains almost ideal for all application. This paper aims to study an alternative approach to screen patient who are suspected with dengue and results obtained will be used as a future guideline for subsequent research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2010
Pages38-42
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2010 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 30 Nov 20102 Dec 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2010

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2010
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period30/11/102/12/10

Keywords

  • dengue
  • fibre optics
  • long period grating (LPG)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering

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