TY - GEN
T1 - Development of olfactory display using pulse ejection for medical applications
AU - Matsuura, Eri
AU - Homma, Shutaro
AU - Horiguchi, Shohei
AU - Matsumoto, Sayaka
AU - Okada, Ken Ichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Periodic assessment of olfaction is important because a decline in olfaction can be caused by disorders such as Alzheimer's dementia at an early stage. However, current olfactory tests are rarely conducted due to the time and effort necessary for the scent presentation and the problem of scent lingering in the air. Therefore, we developed an olfactory display using pulse ejection for medical use. We also developed several types of nozzles and compared them. We evaluated the performance of the olfactory display on patients with olfactory disturbance. Then, we measured the degree of olfactory loss of the patients by using T and T olfactometer, the most widely known olfactory test in Japan, and found that our olfactory display could accurately assess the olfactory skills of the patients. In the future, we aim to solve the problems of current olfactory tests by using the olfactory display and familiarize olfactory tests.
AB - Periodic assessment of olfaction is important because a decline in olfaction can be caused by disorders such as Alzheimer's dementia at an early stage. However, current olfactory tests are rarely conducted due to the time and effort necessary for the scent presentation and the problem of scent lingering in the air. Therefore, we developed an olfactory display using pulse ejection for medical use. We also developed several types of nozzles and compared them. We evaluated the performance of the olfactory display on patients with olfactory disturbance. Then, we measured the degree of olfactory loss of the patients by using T and T olfactometer, the most widely known olfactory test in Japan, and found that our olfactory display could accurately assess the olfactory skills of the patients. In the future, we aim to solve the problems of current olfactory tests by using the olfactory display and familiarize olfactory tests.
KW - healthcare
KW - olfactory display
KW - pulse ejection
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U2 - 10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454560
DO - 10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454560
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84966562868
T3 - 2015 17th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2015
SP - 534
EP - 539
BT - 2015 17th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2015
Y2 - 13 October 2015 through 17 October 2015
ER -
