NON INVASIVE TECHNIQUE TO MEASURE GLUCOSE AND HAEMOGLOBIN LEVEL IN BLOOD USING NIR-OCCLUSION SPECTROSCOPY

Diabetes has evolved as one of the principal health care epidemics of the modern era. Diabetes can also result in reduced blood haemoglobin level causing anemia. Therefore maintaining healthy blood glucose and Hb levels are essential for the prevention of conditions like diabetes, obesity and other long-term and short-term micro & macrovascular complications such as diabetic ketoacidosis and severe hypoglycemia. For the effective management of Type I and Type II Diabetes, frequent blood sugar monitoring is required. As the available invasive blood glucose monitoring techniques reduce the patient compliance causing pain, discomfort and inconvenience to patients due to frequent finger prickings, the technologies for non invasive glucose monitoring gained importance in the recent decades. The purpose of our project is to develop a non-invasive method for measuring blood glucose and Hb levels based on NIR- Occlusion spectroscopy. The development of this technique would considerably improve the quality of life for diabetic patients, facilitate their compliance for glucose and Hb monitoring and also reduce the complications and mortality associated with this disease.