Development of Automatic 3D Blood Vessel Search and Automatic Blood Sampling System by Using Hybrid Stereo-Autofocus Method

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="258626.fig.0014a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijo/volume-2012/258626/figures/258626.fig.0014a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Initial position</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="258626.fig.0014b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijo/volume-2012/258626/figures/258626.fig.0014b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Puncture and blood extraction</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="258626.fig.0014c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijo/volume-2012/258626/figures/258626.fig.0014c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Blood transport</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="d"><td><img alt="258626.fig.0014d" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijo/volume-2012/258626/figures/258626.fig.0014d.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(d) </b>Discharge of artificial blood</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="e"><td><img alt="258626.fig.0014e" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijo/volume-2012/258626/figures/258626.fig.0014e.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(e) </b>Enzyme sensor to measure the blood glucose</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Photos of automatic blood sampling procedure and the enzyme sensor used to measure the blood glucose.</table>

International Journal of Optics

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Figure 14: Development of Automatic 3D Blood Vessel Search and Automatic Blood Sampling System by Using Hybrid Stereo-Autofocus Method 