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Over the years some medical studies have tried to better understand the
internal behavior of human beings. Many researchers in this domain
have been striving to find relationships between intra-vaginal
temperature and certain female health conditions, such as ovulation and
fertile period since woman’s intra-vaginal temperature is one of the
body parameters most preferred in such studies. However, due to the
lack of an appropriate technology, medical research devoted to studying
correlations of such body parameters with certain woman’s body
phenomena could not obtain improve on better results. The objective of
this work falls in the creation of communication tools with intra-body
sensors. These sensors must be able to collect intra-body parameters
such as human core temperature. To reach this main objective the
construction of a new intra-body sensor for acquisition and monitoring
the intra-vaginal temperature is proposed. This novel intra-body sensor
provides data collection that is used to studying the relation between
temperature variations and female health conditions, such as
anticipation and monitoring of the ovulation period, detection of
pregnancy contractions, preterm labor prevention, etc. The novel sensor
and his communication tools was tested and validated on hospitalized
women as well as normal healthy women. Finally a medical team has
attested to the accuracy, usability and performance of this novel intrabody
sensor.
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Keywords
Bioinformática Sensores corporais - Monitorização da temperatura Saúde electrónica Informática - Aplicação médica