A SIMPLE INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATION OF WHOLE BLOOD COMPONENTS USING CENTRIFUGE TECHNIQUE AND MEASUREMENT OF RBC

Dodda Basavanagoud B, K. Padma Priya

Abstract: Development of tiny portable, cost effective simple Instrumentation embedded system will help in medical field for the treatment of adult patients. The need of embedded system is more common now days in medical field. Most of the annual medical check-ups involve the physician ordering only routine blood tests. With blood test results in hand, one can catch critical changes in the body before they manifest as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or worse. According to recent surveys, it is very essential for adults to checkup blood to know the hemoglobin, platelets, plasma contents etc. to avoid risks in life. Even rural common people need to come for cities to checkup blood. This work mainly focuses on design of such low cost embedded solution for the measurement of blood components especially for adults. The people may get rough idea about their health using this low cost device. We have used centrifuge technique in our system which works on the principle of sedimentation for the separation of blood components. The low power ARM7TDMI LPC2148 microcontroller is used in our system. The cost of the system is affordable even for common people

Keywords: Centrifuge technique, ARM7 LPC2148, Portable, DC motor, PWM, Blood components, RBC, WBC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0315001